31 Days of SSIS for SQL Server 2014 Update Question
A few years back, I put together a blog series on SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) titled 31 Days of SSIS....
2014-02-24
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StrateSQL
Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #72
It’s Monday time for this week’s weekly link round-up. If you want to catch these links “live” (so exciting), follow...
2014-02-24
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Reblog: February 14 to February 20
Photo credit – Jenn and Tony Bot
Sometimes old stuff is just as cool as new stuff. Over the past few years,...
2014-02-21
760 reads
Walmart Store Openings through Power Map
A couple weeks back, I was taking a look at a map that had been put together on Flowing Data...
2014-02-21 (first published: 2014-02-18)
2,383 reads
Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #71
It’s Monday time for this week’s weekly link round-up. If you want to catch these links “live” (so exciting), follow...
2014-02-20 (first published: 2014-02-17)
1,816 reads
Reblog: February 7 to February 13
Photo credit – JStove
Old posts are like unicorns. You might see them just once, but it’d sure be nice to have...
2014-02-14
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Don’t Forget About the Second Shot
Photo credit – Dennis Wong
A couple weeks back, in a post on certifications, I mentioned the Second Shot offer from Microsoft...
2014-02-12
558 reads
Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #70
It’s Monday time for this week’s weekly link round-up. If you want to catch these links “live” (so exciting), follow...
2014-02-10
563 reads
Reblog: January 31 to February 6
Photo credit – Travis
Ever go digging through your backyard for dinosaur bones? Maybe not, but it’s worthwhile from time to time...
2014-02-07
784 reads
Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #69
It’s Monday time for this week’s weekly link round-up. If you want to catch these links “live” (so exciting), follow...
2014-02-03
1,087 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