My pleasure.

FWIW:

https://popbi.wordpress.com/2012/05/02/fuzzy-match-your-data-without-enterprise-edition/

https://pawlowski.cz/2010/12/28/sql_server-fuzzy-strings-matching-using-levenshtein-algorithm-t-sql-vs-clr/

https://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/roll-your-own-fuzzy-match-grouping-jaro-winkler-t-sql

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2328357/are-there-any-alternatives-to-the-ssis-fuzzy-lookup-for-plain-net-code

If you find one of these to be helpful in your work, I'd love to work with you on an article to help others.

If you  don't see the named instance listed, that is strange. Can you post what you see in config manager?

Typically the default instance listens on 1433. Named instances get a...

It doesn't quite appear you've asked a question, and this isn't well formatted to understand what you want. Please format code as code, and explain what results or logic you...

Do you mean in SSIS? Or in Full-Text or something else?

If SSIS, doesn't appear to be: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/integration-services/integration-services-features-supported-by-the-editions-of-sql-server?view=sql-server-ver15

The the KB page (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/kb5000685-cumulative-update-23-for-sql-server-2017-22b653c7-8487-4564-9db2-b5c1bd465145) for the latest, scroll down. There is an uninstall section.

I found execs moving from secretaries to doing their own email strange. At first, I think it is empowering and is efficient, but often this devolves into a low level...

Mark,

The old website is gone. No data or code. However, I have the XML files used for guidebook and have reconstructed quite a bit of the site. I am looking...

Congrats, Brian. Hope it goes well

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No benefit here I can see. I was experimenting, as I've had MS people ask me to use ADS for PoSh. I was curious how it worked, since I use...

I agree, and I am pushing as a member of the Microsoft Data Community Advisory Board (https://www.sqlservercentral.com/forums/topic/is-there-room-for-independent-sql-or-data-integration-based-user-groups/page/2/#post-3858112), to build a more comprehensive directory. Not just of groups MS supports,...

Actually, you can just use the counter. Don't need the object, but certainly the explanation can usually be improved.

Love to see you or others submit something if you think of...

I am always looking to say "I don't know" in an interview, but then explain how I'd learn. I can do to the docs, or use Google to search these...

Not sure what your question is. The ref is a general link for the DMV. The link from there to SQL Server objects describes each counter. This would be the...

I'm not quite sure. Do you mean

a) using sys.dm_os_performance_counters to check deprecated features with a counter has the counter deprecated?

b) I have a function that calls sp_addserver, and that proc...