sp_what
Better* than sp_who2, with less re-checking data to get answers. Also, it is SnaZy. With a capital Z.
*Dont you just love totally non subjective assessments like this?
2018-11-01 (first published: 2018-10-22)
2,988 reads
Nicholas Williams
Email SP Results
Will take a stored procedure and email the results in a dynamically generated embedded HTML table or as an attachment.
2016-12-05 (first published: 2015-05-29)
2,798 reads
DB Integrity & Backup Report
This script returns the date for the most recent log/full backups and checks if a DBCC CHECKDB has ran within a week.
2015-07-23 (first published: 2015-06-23)
1,319 reads
Recent Restore History
This script simply returns the most recent restore information about databases for a server.
Returns the destination database name, the device used to perform the restore and the restore date.
2015-07-15 (first published: 2015-06-10)
739 reads
2013-12-06 (first published: 2011-01-31)
4,804 reads
Database Growth History
This script uses the backup tables to get info on the growth of your database files.
2013-05-07 (first published: 2009-02-03)
14,769 reads
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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