There are a couple process hungry operations that can be avoided when developing or migrating T-SQL queries into Microsoft’s Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) environment. With proper planning and attention to...
2012-08-27
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Did you know that it’s election season for PASS? Did you know that you can pose questions to the potential...
2012-08-27
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I’ve been with my current client for just over a year and I still get calls for the previous occupant...
2012-08-27
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This weekend I traveled three hours north to Oklahoma City to participate in SQL Saturday 125, the second annual event...
2012-08-27
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This weekend I traveled three hours north to Oklahoma City to participate in SQL Saturday 125, the second annual event...
2012-08-27
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I love San Francisco. It was one of the cities that I thought I might live in someday. My kids...
2012-08-27
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As a DBA, when can you consider yourself as a senior DBA?
If you read online posts, you will find most...
2012-08-27
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I was chatting with PASS community pollinator Karla Landrum recently and she asked me my thoughts on the auto tweets...
2012-08-25
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I’m nowhere near where I needed to be. I am not digging enough. I’m not learning enough. Learning opportunities are...
2012-08-25
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Great story about a client who didn’t under the different between Skype and Sharepoint – while doing a Sharepoint initiative! It’s...
2012-08-25
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By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
By Steve Jones
In 100 years a lot of what we take to be true now will...
Hello, I inherited a number of tables with like 20-30 column using nvarchar(256) in...
Hi, i'm running vs2022. I'm trying out a c# script that i'd like to...
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