Live Monitoring
You can get a look into how SQLServerCentral handles the load of it's database servers with a new tool, and release of reports.
2010-11-11
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Editorial
Automated Driving
Could we ever have computers automating our cars and handling the driving for us? Steve Jones doesn't think so, despite some ongoing projects.
2010-11-10
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Code of Conduct for Software Maintenance
A number of companies came together to develop a code of conduct recently for software vendors. Steve Jones thinks this is a good idea.
2010-11-09
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Should You Write Down Your Passwords?
Today we have an older editorial by Steve Jones being republished. This piece talks about security and why it might be a good idea to write down those passwords.
2010-11-08
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Enterprise Management
This Friday Steve Jones asks the question about how you manage large numbers of SQL Server instances.
2010-11-05
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One Time Passwords
Facebook has implemented a new security feature that Steve Jones thinks might work well for SQL Server as well.
2010-11-04
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Swarms
Steve Jones talks about the workplace of the future, and a prediction from the Gartner Group that it will include swarms.
2010-11-03
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Life Without a Net
Today we have a guest editorial from Rodney Landrum that talks about life in the past, when we couldn't look up everything on the Internet.
2010-11-02
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Happy Halloween 2010
Steve Jones has a day off before SQL Server Connections and brings us a blooper reel for Halloween.
2010-11-01
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Can I really drop that index?
You believe that an index is unused and so could be removed, and yet, your finger hovers nervously over the metaphorical "delete" button. You can't quite bring yourself to do it. Is it really safe to drop this index? Tony wonders if "invisible indexes" might solve this dilemma.
2010-11-01
391 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...
Forums
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...
Missing the Jaro Winkler Distance
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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