Kendra’s Top 3 Tips for Working Remotely
A guest editorial today from Kendra has a few tips for working from home.
2024-04-15 (first published: 2020-03-12)
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Down Tools Week 2020 (10 minute video/podcast episode)
In this episode of Dear SQL DBA, I talk about how Redgate runs "Down Tools Week," what I'm working on as part of the project, and how this has...
2020-08-21 (first published: 2020-08-06)
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Things That Shouldn’t Be Normal in Database Development (28 minute video/podcast episode)
Many people use entrenched processes for database development that have been in place so long that it’s hard to imagine doing it any other way. In this episode, I...
2020-08-11 (first published: 2020-07-30)
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Everything I Never Wanted to Know About Collation (14 minute video/podcast episode)
I'm not an expert on collation in SQL Server, but there are a few important facts which I've had to learn the hard way.
In this episode I share...
2020-07-27 (first published: 2020-07-16)
933 reads
How to Spell and Capitalize tempdb for SQL Server
No matter what I write in this post, some of y'all are going to tell me I'm wrong. That's inevitable, because I'm writing about tempdb: a database so complex...
2020-07-24 (first published: 2020-07-15)
629 reads
Why I’m Learning Git via the Command Line Interface
Today Kendra discusses the advantages of using a command line interface for Git.
2020-01-16
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The Case for Considering Git
Today we have a guest editorial from Kendra Little that looks at choosing a version control system as you adopt a Database DevOps software development process.
2019-04-19
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2019-03-05
885 reads
Why Redgate is Running a Database Development Disasters Contest?
Kendra Little explains why Redgate would like to hear your stories of how the database has been left behind.
2019-02-14
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2019-01-21
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Advice I Like: In 100 Years
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In 100 years a lot of what we take to be true now will...
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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