2013-02-22 (first published: 2013-02-05)
1,789 reads
Scripts
Script to Rebuild/Reorganise Indexes
A script to get the fragmentation of indexes in a database and then rebuild or reorganise accordingly
2013-02-19 (first published: 2013-01-29)
2,122 reads
2013-02-18 (first published: 2013-01-25)
2,770 reads
Get Detach or Attach all user databases script
Script to generate script to detach or attach user databases
2013-02-15 (first published: 2013-01-29)
5,830 reads
Reorganize indexes for all tables in all user databases
Script to reorganize all indexes on all tables in user databases
2013-02-14 (first published: 2013-01-31)
3,258 reads
2013-02-13 (first published: 2013-01-25)
1,999 reads
Generate Column Metadata
This utility will generate column and parameter metadata in various useful formats for tables, views, and procedures.
2013-02-12 (first published: 2013-01-18)
749 reads
Tables and rows listing
Simple script which create a list of all the tables and rows of the selected DB.
2013-02-11 (first published: 2012-12-21)
1,173 reads
2013-02-08 (first published: 2012-12-27)
1,527 reads
T-SQL Bulk Insert
T-SQL that allows you to import tab delimited text file into correct table based on file name.
2013-02-07 (first published: 2012-12-27)
2,309 reads
Blogs
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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