SSWUG Spring Conference Speaker Ratings
This spring I presented a few sessions at the spring SSWUG virtual conference – DBTechCon. Now that the event is over,...
2011-07-21
1,030 reads
StrateSQL
Announcing SQL Saturday #99
Seriously, what’s going on in Minnesota? Our government is shut down and… we are hosting a SQL Saturday on a...
2011-07-20
663 reads
Got Married, Got Behind
No posts in a couple weeks, except the Re-Blogs. Guess the running around and getting married I did last week...
2011-07-20
468 reads
Re-blog – July 8-July 14
As I mentioned in the introductory post, I’m summarizing posts from previous years in the the past week. Some posts...
2011-07-15
751 reads
Re-blog – July 1-July 7
As I mentioned in the introductory post, I’m summarizing posts from previous years in the the past week. Some posts...
2011-07-08
460 reads
July Monthly SQL Server Checklist
It’s a new month, and time to check out your SQL Servers to make sure everything is configured and working...
2011-07-05
1,034 reads
2011 SQL Server MVP Award
Thanks Microsoft for awarding me the MVP for SQL Server for the third year in a row. It’s a great...
2011-07-04
599 reads
Re-blog – June 24-June 30
As I mentioned in the introductory post, I’m summarizing posts from previous years in the the past week. Some posts...
2011-07-01
516 reads
Minnesota SQL Server Study Group (July)
Study Group
For the past few months, I’ve been openly working towards the SQL Server MCM. I failed a couple times...
2011-06-30
1,794 reads
Let’s Get Registered! Registered!
The PASS Summit is only a few short months away. But before that happens there is an important deadline fast...
2011-06-28
679 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...
Forums
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