Function to find non-printable characters
The function is used to find non-printable ASCII characters in an input string.
2009-05-21 (first published: 2009-04-24)
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Scripts
2009-05-14 (first published: 2009-04-08)
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Last Sunday
Needed to return the week ending date as Sunday for daily transactions multiple times, for several aggregate reports. This function returns the last Sunday for past or future weeks.
2009-05-11 (first published: 2009-04-15)
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Cluster Information
This script will display information about the instance(s) on your cluster. Name of nodes, active node and drive letters of the resources
2009-05-08 (first published: 2009-04-15)
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2009-05-07 (first published: 2009-03-27)
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Convert GMT/UTC to Local datetime
International Applications require timezone handling for different users Here is how to do this with SQL.
2009-05-06
4,048 reads
Easily calculate the size of your tables
This quick and dirty sql will tell you the number of rows in your tables, the size in MB of yout data, and the total size (including indexes)
2009-05-05 (first published: 2008-10-04)
1,667 reads
The Ultimate Prospective-Index Column(s) Selectivity Analyzer
Gets single-column and cumulative-column selectivity stats and @Top largest dupe sets for each cumulative column stepping for a set of one or more columns for a table.
2009-05-03 (first published: 2008-08-01)
2,128 reads
What SQL JOb's are running on 2005 Server
This script returns the information of all SQL Jobs that are running on the server with the latest status.
2009-05-01 (first published: 2009-04-08)
1,623 reads
Check if a sql server agent job ran
Checks if a sql server job ran successfully in the last xx minutes.
2009-04-29 (first published: 2009-04-02)
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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