SQL Server 2008 Upgrade Gotchas & Fixes
Preparation for upgrading SQL Server 2005 production database servers to SQL Server 2008, I tested upgrade in dev/test env.
The Conference Benefit
Why attend a conference? After the PASS Summit and SQL Connections, Steve Jones shares a few thoughts about the benefits of attending a conference for employees.
How to Detach and Attach a SQL Server FILESTREAM Enabled Database
Most SQL Server DBAs have questions about how to detach and attach a FILESTREAM enabled databases. In this tip, we will take a look at the steps Database Administrators need to follow in order to detach and attach a FILESTREAM database once Data, Log and FILESTREAM container files have been moved from the default location to a new location. This tip includes a general explanation of the FILESTREAM technology introduced with SQL Server 2008. This is followed by examples and scripts to detach and attach FILESTREAM enabled database in your environment.
SQL Server 2008 Database Mirroring in Action
I have been pretty busy with a server consolidation and move project at work. We had four Dell PowerEdge 6800...
The Conference Benefit
Why attend a conference? After the PASS Summit and SQL Connections, Steve Jones shares a few thoughts about the benefits of attending a conference for employees.
The Conference Benefit
Why attend a conference? After the PASS Summit and SQL Connections, Steve Jones shares a few thoughts about the benefits of attending a conference for employees.
The Conference Benefit
Why attend a conference? After the PASS Summit and SQL Connections, Steve Jones shares a few thoughts about the benefits of attending a conference for employees.
Surely It Should Just Work?
Does a programmer need to know how his code gets executed? Arguably, developers should focus on database structures rather than a particular implementation, and Phil tries to convince us that good programming is not just knowing everything about your programming environment.
Testing at Scale
It seems that many companies don't have the luxury of working with a variety of hardware configurations to test their architecture before deploying their applications. Some of the issues involve time and some involve tools. Steve Jones has an idea that could help with the latter today.
Full Text Catalog Configuration in SQL Server 2005 Express Edition
Having concluded our discussion of Reporting Services in SQL Server 2005 Express Edition, we now begin an examination of Full Text Indexing and Search.
Blogs
A bespoke reporting solution doesn’t have to cost the earth
By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
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...
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