Send Email to recipients with Attachment using PowerShell
If you have a requirement to send email to recipients with attachment, can use the script.
2019-05-03 (first published: 2016-05-17)
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Setup Alerts for SQL Replication
If you want to monitor few specific alerts for SQL Replication (Merge and Transnational), you can may consider adding these 14 alerts.
2019-05-03 (first published: 2015-06-16)
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Shrink Tlog Files
DBA many a times need to shrink the log files if that grows very large. Though I am not recommending to do it daily or often but if space is an issue and you want to release space to OS, you may use the script.
2019-05-03 (first published: 2016-09-22)
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Simple script to list out SPID, Program_name and login details
If you have any requirement where you want to find out all the SPIDs running on a database along with the program/application name of the SPID and the login details. You can run the procedure to get the details very easily.
2019-05-03 (first published: 2014-06-30)
4,100 reads
Standardizing DBMAIL Profile & Account Setup for Notification
If you have a requirement to setup with a default global dbmail profile and account you can use my script.
2019-05-03 (first published: 2015-05-28)
1,075 reads
Taking Backup Of All DBs
Wrote the script to take compressed backup with combining many other features.
2019-05-03 (first published: 2015-04-29)
1,052 reads
Taking backup of the databases to the Active server alone
If you have Always On and need to stop running database backups to the stand by server, use the script.
2019-05-03 (first published: 2016-11-01)
281 reads
2019-05-03 (first published: 2015-03-30)
3,905 reads
Verify Login SID and Machine SID
This script is to verify which login accounts have SID values that don’t match the correct SID values defined on the machine or in the domain.
2019-05-03 (first published: 2014-12-24)
1,640 reads
SQL Server Worker Thread Alert
We decided to build a quick worker thread alert so we know when we are near the limits.
2019-05-02
1,583 reads
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Missing the Jaro Winkler Distance
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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