Red errors in the results pane
Most DBAs have seen those nice clear red errors in the results pane. And I’m sure most DBAs have noticed...
2012-12-27 (first published: 2012-12-19)
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Kenneth Fisher
Where is my backup?
We recently added responsibility for ~80 more servers to our team. This means that my team-mates and I are working...
2012-12-19 (first published: 2012-12-12)
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Generating multiple SQL statements from a query
Dynamic SQL is one of my favorite tools in the DBA toolbox. I’m big on automation and dynamic SQL can...
2012-12-17
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Logins vs Users
Logins are not Users. It’s a pretty easy concept but one that seems to give a lot of people problems....
2012-12-12 (first published: 2012-12-03)
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Copying Connection Managers in SSIS
Did you know you can copy and paste connection managers in SSIS? While I haven’t found this a huge benefit...
2012-12-10
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Creating an empty table from a SELECT statement
I’m in the middle of reading a good book on DMVs, “SQL Server DMVs in Action” http://www.manning.com/stirk by Ian W....
2012-11-30 (first published: 2012-11-26)
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CTEs beyond SELECT
The other day I was writing a query to pull some DMV information and I ended up using several CTEs...
2012-11-20
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Looping through multiple servers in SSIS Part 3
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve set up a SSIS package that will loop through a group of servers...
2012-11-15
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2012-11-15
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Looping through multiple servers in SSIS part 2
Last week I posted a quick example of looping through multiple servers using SSIS and being in a bit of...
2012-11-12 (first published: 2012-11-09)
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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