Server vs Instance. A rant.
It’s a SQL Server Instance not a SQL Server. The product is SQL Server. The installed copy is an Instance. ... Continue reading
2021-07-29
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SQLStudies
Speaking: In person vs webinars vs recordings
I don’t speak all that often. A few times a year for the most part. Because of that I don’t ... Continue reading
2021-07-27
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How do I unlock a SQL Server Login using T-SQL (without changing the password)?
We recently had an application login (SQL Server authenticated) in one of our training environments start locking out on a ... Continue reading
2021-08-09 (first published: 2021-07-22)
809 reads
Experiment: If I have Dynamic Data Masking enabled will BCP pull the non masked data.
Hypothesis: If I have Dynamic Data Masking enabled on a column then when I use something like BCP to pull ... Continue reading
2021-07-20
14 reads
Padding a string in SQL Server
I’ve been working on converting a piece of DB2 code into T-SQL and one of the functions I had to ... Continue reading
2021-08-02 (first published: 2021-07-15)
407 reads
Interview with the Amazing Kellyn Pot’Vin-Gorman
Thanks for agreeing to do this Kellyn. I’ve always found you to be one of the more interesting personalities in ... Continue reading
2021-07-23 (first published: 2021-07-08)
247 reads
The SQL Server community and the rising tide (and all that).
I was speaking with one of my favorite people in the SQL Server community, Grant Fritchey (blog|twitter), on twitter today. ... Continue reading
2021-07-06
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SQL Homework – July 2021 – Log shipping
Log shipping is probably the least complicated and easiest to configure of the various methods of creating a secondary copy ... Continue reading
2021-07-01
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Another reason I prefer side-by-side SQL Server instance upgrades.
This is a quick non-technical discussion (i.e. not a how to in any way) of some of the benefits of ... Continue reading
2021-07-16 (first published: 2021-06-29)
679 reads
DDL Trigger to log database level security commands.
In my last post I talked about reasons why your permissions might go missing. One of the reasons, and in ... Continue reading
2021-07-05 (first published: 2021-06-24)
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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...
RANK() vs DENSE_RANK(): #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I haven’t done one of these in awhile, but I saw an article recently...
Forums
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...
Missing the Jaro Winkler Distance
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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