Self Service BI and PowerPivot
Marco Russo and Alberto Ferrari have written a book called Microsoft PowerPivot for Excel 2010: Give Your Data Meaning that I finally...
2011-10-17
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Garrett Hilton Edmondson
Event Driven SSIS with Synchronous Processing and Dynamic Subscriptions
I know the title of this post is a little cryptic and something that only a techie would like but...
2011-10-12
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Analysis Services 2008 R2 Performance Guide
You must read this if you work with SSAS:
Analysis Services 2008 R2 Performance Guide
Infact, I would recommend re-reading it a number...
2011-10-11
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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