Session: Introduction to Powershell Cmdlets for DBAs
I’ve given my new Powershell Cmdlets for DBAs session a handful of times now, and just realized I haven’t blogged...
2014-10-28
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SQL Awesomesauce
Minion Reindex is here
We released Minion Reindex by MidnightDBA unto the world, accompanied by a press release on SQLServerCentral.com, and people have responded so incredibly positively. We’re quite...
2014-10-27
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Minion Reindex arrives this Friday!
Edit: Minion Reindex has arrived, and it’s getting fantastic notes! The MidnightDBA team is announcing the release of a new,...
2014-10-20
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PASS Summit 2014: Recommendations and Invitations (#sqlpass #Summit14)
The first week of November, we’ll be at the PASS Summit inSeattle, WA. This is the highlight of most SQL Server speakers’...
2014-10-10
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Tip: Concatenate rows with XML, or COALESCE
Edit: I went and changed the first query without paying close enough attention. I’ve fixed the explanation and the query....
2014-10-08
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Wendy Pastrick and Grant Fritchey: Optimists in Action #passvotes
If I had a favorite kind of politician, it would be the kind that, when asked a question, sighs tiredly,...
2014-09-19
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Tip: RECOVERY_PENDING is not the same as RECOVERING
I’ve seen this mistake more than once, from DBAs with a middling to fair amount of experience. So it bears repeating....
2014-09-08
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This Week in Awesome – Running at PASS, Cookie Jail, SQL Sats, Breakfast
If you’re in Seattle the week of November 2 – say, for example, you’re attending the PASS Summit that week – consider...
2014-07-30
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The Week in Awesome – Plugins, Cars, Food, and France
This week in awesome: Denny Cherry – our own @mrdenny – has created a Password Vault WordPress plugin. That looks seriously cool....
2014-05-30
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Applied SQL: Orphan a user, fix orphaned users (sp_FixOrphanedUsers)
Ever heard of orphaned users? It’s a database user account, disconnected from its associated login. You typically get this when...
2014-05-05
928 reads
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...
Forums
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