March Madness – SQL Server style
Bodypaint not required
It seems that March is another great month for getting your geek on without having to leave the...
2012-03-08
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Blog Posts
Moving MASTER Database
In my previous post we see how to move MSDB database, today we will see how to move or relocate...
2012-03-08
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SQL Server – netstat monitoring and tuning performance
To display network connections and various network interface statistics – netstat is a handy command – line based tool.
Why is it...
2012-03-08
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What is a Favicon?
If I were to show you the tabs in the following pic without a description, would you recognize the websites...
2012-03-08
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What is a Favicon?
If I were to show you the tabs in the following pic without a description, would you recognize the websites to which they belong? I would dare say that...
2012-03-08
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Why I am excited about SQL Server 2012
By now many of you have had the opportunity to hear or see something about the next release of SQL...
2012-03-08
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Backing up a Certificate
If you create your own certificate in SQL Server, you need to make sure that you back it up immediately....
2012-03-07 (first published: 2012-02-27)
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Enabling Filestream in SQL Server 2012
Filestream is a cool feature, albeit one that’s cumbersome to use in SQL Server 2008 and R2. However the FileTable...
2012-03-07
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I’m sorry, you’ve committed a GIANT INTERNET FAIL (#SQL2012)
Updated with links to no-login goodness. Updated again with IE rage.
This week, Microsoft announced the SQL Server 2012 release to...
2012-03-07
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Intel Xeon E5-2600 Series Processors Released
Yesterday, Intel finally released the much anticipated Xeon E5-2600 family of processors, also known as Sandy Bridge-EP. This is a...
2012-03-07
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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