A Trio of Functions
I found myself perusing an execution plan the other day. I know, big surprise there. This execution plan showed me some interesting things I had never really paid much...
2012-01-17
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Jason Brimhall
A Trio of Functions
I found myself perusing an execution plan the other day. I know, big surprise there. This execution plan showed me...
2012-01-17
1,236 reads
Missing Indexes
SQL Server has means built into it to track possible missing indexes. This used to be found through the use...
2012-01-17 (first published: 2012-01-12)
3,824 reads
Meme15 Twitter
Twitter and Your Career
With the new blog party on the block, we have Jason Strate (blog | twitter) asking us this...
2012-01-16
666 reads
Meme15 Twitter
Twitter and Your Career With the new blog party on the block, we have Jason Strate (blog | twitter) asking us this month these two questions: Why should average...
2012-01-16
7 reads
Missing Indexes
SQL Server has means built into it to track possible missing indexes. This used to be found through the use of the Index Tuning Wizard. The process has improved...
2012-01-12
5 reads
TSQL Tuesday #26 or #23 – Identity Crisis
This second chance, gives me the opportunity to finally talk about a topic that has been on my to-blog list for quite some time. I hope this post will...
2012-01-10
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TSQL Tuesday #26 or #23 – Identity Crisis
The first opportunity of this New Year to participate in TSQLTuesday, we have been invited by David Howard (blog) to...
2012-01-10
888 reads
Meme Monday January 2012
Meme Monday was pushed back this month to the second Monday of the month. That is a good thing or...
2012-01-09
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Meme Monday January 2012
Meme Monday was pushed back this month to the second Monday of the month. That is a good thing or maybe a bad thing or maybe a non-discussion at...
2012-01-09
3 reads
Blogs
A bespoke reporting solution doesn’t have to cost the earth
By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
Presenting with Visual Studio Code
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
Advice I Like: In 100 Years
By Steve Jones
In 100 years a lot of what we take to be true now will...
Forums
AllocationType as ROW_OVERFLOW_DATA
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is it true we cant debug c# scripts in ssis anymore under vs
Hi, i'm running vs2022. I'm trying out a c# script that i'd like to...
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