Azure Managed Instances are provisioned by default with a yourname.uniqueid.databases.windows.net DNS fully qualified domain name (FQDN). Even on your private virtual network you will still have to use this...
2022-10-05 (first published: 2022-09-20)
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Hi Everyone, This is your Austin SQL Server Consultant and I will be speaking at SQL Saturday Jacksonville. I am happy to get back out and, on the road,...
2022-05-13
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Hi Everyone, this is John Sterrett. I am a SQL Server Consultant in Austin, TX. Last year I blogged about a feature called Persist Sample Percent. It had a...
2021-09-22 (first published: 2021-09-14)
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Hi Everyone, this is John Sterrett. I am a SQL Server Consultant in Austin, TX. Last year I blogged about a feature called Persist Sample Percent. It had a...
2021-09-14
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Want to make sure you don’t have errors, validate performance, and save money while making changes with Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, SQL Server RDS in Amazon...
2020-09-18 (first published: 2020-09-11)
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Want to make sure you don’t have errors, validate performance, and save money while making changes with Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, SQL Server RDS in Amazon...
2020-09-11
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When a bug jumps out and surprises me I like to share it so others do not run into the same unexpected result. I don’t think there is any...
2020-09-03 (first published: 2020-08-24)
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Update: Sept 14, 2021 Persist sample percent is fixed. The fix is now rolled into SQL 2016 SP2 CU17, SQL 2019 CU10, and the future SQL 2017 CU26. When a bug...
2020-08-24
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I am a consultant in Austin who can help make your data go fast, be secure and highly available. When I am engaged in a performance tuning project priority...
2020-04-20
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I am a consultant in Austin who can help make your data go fast, be secure and highly available. When I am engaged in a performance tuning project priority...
2020-04-20
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By Steve Jones
I haven’t done one of these in awhile, but I saw an article recently...
In last months one of the scenarios where you can use AI has been...
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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