String Replace in Stored Procedures with Powershell
Find a string in a stored procedure and replace with powershell
2018-11-13 (first published: 2018-11-06)
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Scripts
Disk Space Check
I was using this script to check disk space on individual servers for quite some time. And now since I started to use registered servers for MS SQL, I thought of a little modification to the script.
2018-11-09 (first published: 2018-10-24)
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The Pesky Windows Power Plan Oh My
The below script will build a csv file for import of the servers Power Plan Setting.
2018-11-06 (first published: 2018-10-19)
577 reads
2018-11-05 (first published: 2018-10-22)
876 reads
sp_what
Better* than sp_who2, with less re-checking data to get answers. Also, it is SnaZy. With a capital Z.
*Dont you just love totally non subjective assessments like this?
2018-11-01 (first published: 2018-10-22)
2,988 reads
2018-10-29 (first published: 2018-10-19)
1,431 reads
Mechanism To Dynamically Build Pivot Table
Script to build PIVOT queries with an arbitrary number of columns
2018-10-25 (first published: 2018-10-15)
1,002 reads
2018-10-24 (first published: 2018-10-15)
911 reads
2018-10-12 (first published: 2018-10-04)
1,170 reads
How to Identify backup tables within production databases
How to identify backup tables within production databases that can be removed.
2018-10-05 (first published: 2018-09-28)
572 reads
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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