SQL Server Myth on Clustered Index page allocation or B-Tree formation
Here is another SQL Server myth which I realised while understanding anatomy of index pages.
For a long time I...
2011-07-11
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Ramukar LivingForSQLServer
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My Favourite SQL Server Myths and Realities
It has been more than two months since I blogged. I have been blogging in my Organization internal blogging site on Management...
2011-06-28
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Why knowledge of internals is required for DBA? here is a valid reason
I got a report from development team that section of BizTalk communicating with SQL Server to update status
is frequently...
2011-02-24
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Evaluating Performance of View and Stored procedure
I got a chance to evaluate performance of both views and stored procedure for high level decision making.
As all of Us knows that purpose/scope...
2011-02-13
11,570 reads
Examining PFS, GAM and SGAM pages
Anyone who can interpret data and index pages will surely think about interpreting PFS, GAM and SGAM pages. I am...
2011-02-13
5,605 reads
SQL Server Storage Internals Part 6 – How to read Clustered and Non Clustered Index Pages
In this article we are going to see how index pages are organized with data pages and how to read different...
2010-12-29
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SQL Server Storage Internals Part 5 - Properties of Clustered and Non Clustered Index pages
In this article, I thought of explaining different types and levels of index pages. but while start preparing for that, I realise...
2010-12-29
5,713 reads
SQL Server Storage Internals Part 5 - Properties of Clustered and Non Clustered Index pages
In this article, I thought of explaining different types and levels of index pages. but while start preparing for that, I realise...
2010-12-27
9,493 reads
SQL Server Storage Internals Part 2 - Partitions and Allocation Units
Before moving on to see anatomy of different types of pages, lets spend some time to understand
The relationship among sys.objects,...
2010-12-27
4,468 reads
SQL Server Storage Internals Part 4 - How to read a Heap page
I like to share 4 updates before moving on to this section:
1. I 've updated my profile to know more about...
2010-12-21
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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