Haunting a Database Near You
Today, we have a special Halloween edition. For me, Halloween and computer geek go quite well together. And thinking about it, I wanted to try to better understand if...
2011-10-31
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Jason Brimhall
Haunting a Database Near You
Today, we have a special Halloween edition. For me, Halloween and computer geek go quite well together. And thinking about...
2011-10-31
1,918 reads
October 2011 LV UG Meeting Update
This is a republish due to a last minute change!!!
We had to reschedule the October meeting due to unforeseen circumstances....
2011-10-18
504 reads
October 2011 LV UG Meeting Update
This is a republish due to a last minute change!!! We had to reschedule the October meeting due to unforeseen circumstances. The only change is the date of the...
2011-10-18
5 reads
An Interesting Sort
I just came across a pretty peculiar sort requirement. The requirement made me sit and think a bit. Since it was somewhat peculiar, I decided I would share the...
2011-10-12
4 reads
An Interesting Sort
I just came across a pretty peculiar sort requirement. The requirement made me sit and think a bit. Since it...
2011-10-12
646 reads
Reach for the Select *s
Do you have your head in the clouds?
Have you wanted to take flight?
Have you been called “Space Case”
If you are...
2011-10-12
724 reads
Reach for the Select *s
Do you have your head in the clouds? Have you wanted to take flight? Have you been called “Space Case” If you are a DB Professional, then all of...
2011-10-12
4 reads
October 2011 LV UG Meeting
Boo! OK, so it really isn’t that scary. But it is that time of year and we happen to have something that could fix something that might be scary....
2011-10-11
4 reads
October 2011 LV UG Meeting
Boo!
OK, so it really isn’t that scary. But it is that time of year and we happen to have something...
2011-10-11
717 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