To Script or Not To Script
When approaching an automation problem the first questions you must answer is whether you should even invest the time to...
2011-03-15
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Chad Miller
Restore and Relocate Database Files Using PowerShell
I was recently asked a question on restoring a database using PowerShell with the following requirements
Take a database backup file...
2011-03-14
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SQLPSX 2.3.2.1 Release
We’ve released a minor update to SQLPSX which includes includes several bug fixes/enhancements as well as one new module. Here’s...
2011-03-13
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T-SQL Tuesday #15 Automation and the SSIS Dumper
This post is my contribution to T-SQL Tuesday, hosted this month by Pat Wright (blog | twitter).
In my previous post...
2011-02-08
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Importing and Exporting SSIS Packages Using PowerShell
SQL Server PowerShell Extensions (SQLPSX) includes a set of function for working with SSIS which among other things allow you...
2011-02-07
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Importing and Exporting SSIS Packages Using PowerShell
SQL Server PowerShell Extensions (SQLPSX) includes a set of function for working with SSIS which among other things allow you...
2011-02-03
11,064 reads
Tampa IT Camp Saturday
The first annual Tampa IT Camp will be held on Saturday, March 19th 2011.
What’s an IT Camp?
In the...
2011-01-22
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SQL Saturday #62
I presented a one hour session at SQL Saturday #62 in Tampa on SQL Server PowerShell Extensions (SQLPSX): “In this...
2011-01-15
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Making an Operations Manager Module
Operations Manager 2007 R2 ships with Operations Manager Shell which is simply a provider with associated cmdlets for working with...
2011-01-04
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Windows Cluster Scripting with WMI and PowerShell
Windows 2008 R2 includes a failoverclusters PowerShell module, but you’ll probably find normal usage limiting for several reasons:
Only works on...
2010-12-31
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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...
RANK() vs DENSE_RANK(): #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I haven’t done one of these in awhile, but I saw an article recently...
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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...
Missing the Jaro Winkler Distance
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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