Find your Enabled SQL Server Network Protocols Using PowerShell
Another quick check I like to do when in 'discovery mode' on a client system is to see what network...
2011-05-21
2,071 reads
Allen White
- Interests: Running, Theatre, Flying, SQL Server
Quickly Find Your DDL Triggers with PowerShell
As a consultant I spend much of the first day or two at a client site discovering everything I can...
2011-05-20
1,312 reads
Change SQL Servers Authentication Mode with PowerShell
Lately I've been working on scripts to check and set security and configuration settings for SQL Server using PowerShell. One...
2011-05-19
5,791 reads
PASS Summit Session Selection is Open
This year the Program Committee decided to open up the selection process to the community. I'm anxious to see how...
2011-05-11
850 reads
Don't Do This
In working on applications at client sites you tend to come across code that makes you think "what were they...
2010-06-25
904 reads
PowerShell Script to Remove Old Backups
A Twitter user asked for a script to remove old backups, and I had one I built back in February,...
2010-06-24
1,124 reads
Lots of Speaking Engagements Coming Up
SQL Saturday - Columbus, OH, June 26, 2010 I'll be presenting two sessions this Saturday (June 26, 2010) in Columbus, OH...
2010-06-23
626 reads
TechEd 2010 Followup
Last week I presented a couple of sessions at Tech Ed NA in New Orleans. It was a great experience,...
2010-06-13
734 reads
Service Broker Solutions - Don't Forget the Basics
After finally getting a Service Broker solution implemented successfully, I'm really impressed with the technology, and frustrated how difficult it...
2010-04-03
898 reads
Document, Document, Document
A while back I blogged about using Checklists , but there's another task you want to incorporate into your workflow - documentation....
2010-03-13
1,202 reads
Blogs
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...
dataMinds Saturday 2026 – Slides
At Saturday the 21st of February I’m presenting an introduction to dimensional modelling at...
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AllocationType as ROW_OVERFLOW_DATA
Hello, I inherited a number of tables with like 20-30 column using nvarchar(256) in...
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