SQL Server Memory Usage - Task Manager
Another question I have answered 100s of times to Non SQL folks. "SQLServr.Exe is consuming 80% of memory. Can you...
2012-05-20
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Blog Posts
Denali – Day 19: Programmability Feature -T-Sql
Denali – Day 19: Programmability Feature -T-Sql
ORDER BY .. OFFSET and FETCH :mysql LIMIT (srno ):
OFFSET is a location of the rows...
2012-05-19
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Promised Links from SQL Saturday 119 Presentations
If you attended one of the sessions I promised to post the links we discussed here. I have done my...
2012-05-19
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Build a Little Free Library
I saw this on the Boing Boing feed yesterday, Little Free Library is a project to try to build 2500...
2012-05-18
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Denali – Day 18: Engine: Express LocalDB–Command line
Denali – Day 18: Engine: Express LocalDB–Command line
Express LocalDB is an express edition with minimum files required to start sql server...
2012-05-18
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Expectations-The Big Disconnect
One of the things I’ve learned from running events is to set expectations. If you’re going to provide coffee don’t...
2012-05-18
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Help I’m an Oracle guy – whats all this SQL Server stuff ?
Having ventured into both the SQL Server world and the depths of Oracle RDBMS – Im often asked what the differences...
2012-05-18
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Rocky Mountain Tech Trifecta 2012
My fourth visit to the Rocky Mountain Tech Trifecta will be tomorrow where I’ll deliver two talks:
Branding Yourself for a...
2012-05-18
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SQL Server 2012 Upgrade Technical Guide is available
The SQL Server 2012 upgrade white paper is now available from Microsoft. I’m proud to have made a contribution and...
2012-05-18
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SQLSat 142 – Waltham
Wow – have I ever been dark and silent this past couple of months. Nothing like the present to reverse that trend. I do have a good excuse for...
2012-05-18
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Blogs
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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AllocationType as ROW_OVERFLOW_DATA
Hello, I inherited a number of tables with like 20-30 column using nvarchar(256) in...
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