Timothy A Wiseman

Timothy A Wiseman is a Database Administrator for SAIC with a focus on efficiency and readability of the database and its surrounding ecosystem. In addition to administering the core SQL Server system, he has experience working with Python and Microsoft Access in conjunction with SQL Server. He holds a Bachelor's of Science in Mathematics as well as an MCDBA and MCITP.

Interests: SQL Server, Python, Go, Mathematics, Legal Issues

SQLite and the Performance Implications of Indexes

by Timothy A Wiseman

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Indexes make an enormous difference in the read speed of a databases. I have previously mentioned that adding proper indexes...

2017-02-05

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MS Access – Store a Different Value than Displayed in a Combo Box

by Timothy A Wiseman

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It is occasionally usefully to display a different values in an Access combo box than what is actually stored in...

2016-10-13

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Python Distributions

by Timothy A Wiseman

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Python Distributions Python is free and open source software. A programmer could download the executables for Python directly from the...

2016-07-01

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Pronouns in technical writing.

by Timothy A Wiseman

SQLWise

When doing technical writing, or for that matter most forms of writing , we need to be able to refer to...

2016-02-17

657 reads

New Publications and a Video

by Timothy A Wiseman

SQLWise

The people at Webucator were kind enough to make a video based on my article on dealing with SQL Server...

2015-11-17

393 reads

Making Changes to Many Forms In Access

by Timothy A Wiseman

SQLWise

Although generally I prefer to create custom interfaces for my databases using fully developed programming languages like Python or C#....

2015-07-03

486 reads

Keep it short

by Timothy A Wiseman

SQLWise

I have been thinking about resumes a great deal lately. Since I recently passed the Bar Exam, I have been...

2015-06-14

546 reads

Dealing with SQL Server LOCK resource errors.

by Timothy A Wiseman

SQLWise

I was recently doing some testing that required a fairly large table. I created the test table, and set it...

2014-05-26

805 reads

Order of a Result Set in SQL

by Timothy A Wiseman

SQLWise

I have seen people build procedures that rely on a result set being returned in a certain order. This is...

2013-09-14

749 reads

SQL Server Three Valued Logic and Ansi Nulls

by Timothy A Wiseman

SQLWise

SQL Server uses a three valued logic with True, False, and Unknown. And, normally, SQL Server Nulls are not comparable....

2013-08-21

1,284 reads

Blogs

A bespoke reporting solution doesn’t have to cost the earth

By ChrisJenkins

You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...

Presenting with Visual Studio Code

By Andrew Pruski

A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...

Advice I Like: In 100 Years

In 100 years a lot of what we take to be true now will...

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Hello, I inherited a number of tables with like 20-30 column using nvarchar(256) in...

connections vs apis

hi , i hear more and more that we have too many connections to...

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...

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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?

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