SQL Overview IV - DBA's Morning Review
Continuing on with his very popular series on monitoring your servers, David Bird takes a look at how you manage checking on multiple servers.
2008-06-02
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Administration
Telecommuting – Thinking Outside the Cube
The concept of telecommuting is arguably the most controversial working arrangement to evolve from the 1990's technological revolution. Tim Ford explains what it requires to work remotely – not just the tools you need, but the also character traits.
2008-05-29
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2010-06-09 (first published: 2008-05-20)
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2008-06-26 (first published: 2008-05-20)
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usp_ActiveProcesses - SQL 2k5
Returns list of active processes and their buffer contents over a specified time.
2008-07-02 (first published: 2008-05-20)
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2009-02-05 (first published: 2008-05-20)
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usp_ShowOrphanUsers - SQL 2k5
Check Orphaned logins ie, not associated with any database on the current instance.
2008-07-16 (first published: 2008-05-20)
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Moving Databases
SQL Server trainer and longtime expert, Andy Warren brings us a great article on one basic skill that every DBA should know.
2008-05-12
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2008-05-09
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2008-04-16
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Blogs
RANK() vs DENSE_RANK(): #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I haven’t done one of these in awhile, but I saw an article recently...
Using CAT for Testing of Data Agents
In last months one of the scenarios where you can use AI has been...
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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