Learning Azure From The Web
I’m working on a technical blog post that I hope to be putting up soon. I’ve run into a number...
2017-04-03
425 reads
The Scary DBA
Random Blogging Challenge Results
The winner is: Everyone.
Hey, the challenge was random. I didn’t promise a prize or a winner. Instead, I suggested everyone...
2017-03-29
644 reads
Sharing With You In All Fifty States
I made a mistake the other day. For some reason I got it into my head that I was flying...
2017-03-28
447 reads
Why You Should Change the Cost Threshold for Parallelism
I’ve written several times about the Cost Threshold for Parallelism and it’s relationship to your execution plans, how to determine...
2017-03-23 (first published: 2017-03-13)
2,960 reads
Help Me, Help You, Deliver DevOps
I believe in DevOps.
Actually, that’s a pretty horrible way to put it. It’s not about belief, like keeping Tinkerbell alive.
I...
2017-03-20 (first published: 2017-03-07)
1,837 reads
SQL Clone and a Little Competition
Redgate has released a new product, SQL Clone. I’ve already talked about how excited I am about it. Now, it’s...
2017-03-13 (first published: 2017-03-06)
1,755 reads
Random Blog Post Challenge
OK, for no particular reason at all or maybe because I had too much food at lunch or just because...
2017-03-02
395 reads
Determining the Cost Threshold for Parallelism
In the previous post, I showed how you can get full listings of your execution plan costs. Knowing what the...
2017-03-09 (first published: 2017-02-28)
1,951 reads
SQL Clone
Today is the launch of SQL Clone, a great new tool that helps you quickly and easily provision SQL Server...
2017-03-06 (first published: 2017-02-27)
2,145 reads
I Don’t Understand
I suspect this may make a few people angry, but I felt the need to share.
I was recently asked to...
2017-03-03 (first published: 2017-02-24)
3,365 reads
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