Index Black Ops Part 2 – Page IO Latch, Page Latch
As I mentioned in my TSQL2sDay index summary post, the I am writing a few posts on the information that...
2010-09-16
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StrateSQL
September PASSMN Meeting Next Week
Ever feel like you are all alone? Maybe a little isolated? This month’s PASSMN meeting might bring up these feelings...
2010-09-15
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Index Black Ops Part 1 – Locks and Blocking
As I mentioned in the my TSQL2sDay index summary post, the next few posts will be on sys.dm_db_index_operational_stats and the...
2010-09-15
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An Index on Indexing #TSQL2sDay
Here we are with another T-SQL Tuesday and time for my entry into the fray. This month we are talking...
2010-09-14
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SQL Saturday Glory
Have you taken the time to plan a fall get-away for some free SQL Server training? You can do this...
2010-09-08
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Find Tables and Columns by Data Type
A couple weeks back someone asked me some questions about data types. Apparently, while implementing some financial data, each developer...
2010-08-24
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Nashville In One Day
This Friday I’ll be traveling to Nashville for SQL Saturday #51. Because I rock, I picked a 5:40 AM flight...
2010-08-17
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SQL Saturday on a Friday?!?
That’s right! PASSMN is breaking the mold and heading onto new ground. We are making our second annual Friday full-day...
2010-08-16
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August PASSMN Meeting This Week
It’s that time of the month and that time of the years. Time for another PASSMN meeting. Also, time for...
2010-08-16
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MSDN Ultimate Subscription Winner
It’s been a busy week and I haven’t been able to put the time in to picking the winner for...
2010-08-07
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Blogs
Presenting with Visual Studio Code
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
Advice I Like: In 100 Years
By Steve Jones
In 100 years a lot of what we take to be true now will...
dataMinds Saturday 2026 – Slides
At Saturday the 21st of February I’m presenting an introduction to dimensional modelling at...
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AllocationType as ROW_OVERFLOW_DATA
Hello, I inherited a number of tables with like 20-30 column using nvarchar(256) in...
is it true we cant debug c# scripts in ssis anymore under vs
Hi, i'm running vs2022. I'm trying out a c# script that i'd like to...
Question of the Day
Missing the Jaro Winkler Distance
I upgraded a SQL Server 2019 instance to SQL Server 2025. I wanted to test the fuzzy string search functions. I run this code:
SELECT JARO_WINKLER_DISTANCE('tim', 'tom')
I get this error message:Msg 195, Level 15, State 10, Line 1 'JARO_WINKLER_DISTANCE' is not a recognized built-in function name.What is wrong? See possible answers