2013-04-03 (first published: 2013-03-08)
1,690 reads
Scripts
2013-04-02 (first published: 2008-09-11)
15,381 reads
2013-04-01 (first published: 2013-03-08)
1,804 reads
2013-03-29 (first published: 2013-03-08)
1,434 reads
Backup history details EMAIL (past 24 hours) in HTML format
Get backup status email daily to your inbox in HTML format.
2013-03-27 (first published: 2013-03-14)
2,385 reads
2013-03-26 (first published: 2013-03-15)
792 reads
Monitor current transactions and get all required information
Check which transactions are running, query text, percent complete , query_plan, wait_type, and how long they have been running etc. - with one command.
2013-03-25 (first published: 2013-03-15)
2,311 reads
Powershell - Document your environment
This script is an improvement from my original script entitled "Powershell - Query SQL Servers Operating system details".
2013-03-22 (first published: 2013-02-27)
2,396 reads
2013-03-21 (first published: 2013-02-27)
1,262 reads
2013-03-19 (first published: 2013-03-01)
1,052 reads
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...
dataMinds Saturday 2026 – Slides
At Saturday the 21st of February I’m presenting an introduction to dimensional modelling at...
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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