Checking the Health of your CLR
The Common Language Runtime (CLR) is the fundamental nerve center of the Microsoft .NET Framework. It is this nerve center that...
2018-01-16
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Jason Brimhall
Checking the Health of your CLR
Having a tool to be able to monitor CLR health will be essential as you deploy more and more managed code within SQL Server. Extended Events offers a great...
2018-01-16
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SQL Server Configurations – Back to Basics
One thing that SQL Server does very well is come pre-configured in a lot of ways. These pre-configured settings would be called defaults. Having default settings is not a...
2018-01-11
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SQL Server Configurations – Back to Basics
One thing that SQL Server does very well is come pre-configured in a lot of ways. These pre-configured settings would...
2018-01-11
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Dynamics AX Event Session
Many moons ago, I wrote about how to enable the context info for Dynamics AX. Having the context info enabled...
2018-01-10 (first published: 2018-01-03)
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Summiting that Technical Challenge
The challenge at hand - conquering that technical problem and getting that high associated with the metaphorical high of summiting a tough task.
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2018-01-10
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Common Tempdb Trace Flags – Back to Basics
In this article I introduce you to some basics in regards to default behaviors and settings in tempdb along with some best practices. It is advisable to investigate from...
2018-01-06
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Common Tempdb Trace Flags – Back to Basics
Once in a while I come across something that sounds fun or interesting and decide to dive a little deeper...
2018-01-06
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Changing Default Logs Directory – Back to Basics
In this article I will explore altering the default logs directory location. Some may say this is no big deal and you can just use the default location used...
2018-01-05
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An Identity Crisis: Is it Profiler or is it Extended Events?
I have been working on this article for far longer than one might think is necessary for something of this...
2018-01-04 (first published: 2017-12-22)
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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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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