Houston TechFest UG Leadership Summit
At the Houston TechFest 2011 Conference at the University of Houston I will be hosting a User Group Leadership Summit...
2011-10-06
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Will Assaf
New website, exciting future for BRSSUG
Just wanted to push out an announcement that the Baton Rouge SQL Server User Group has a new website.
www.brssug.org
We've...
2011-09-30
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Striped backups in SQL Server
Some DBA's don't realize that SQL server can perform a database backup that breaks up the files - stripes them - in...
2011-09-12
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Moving the SQL replication snapshot folder
I recently addressed an issue where a client server's data volume was getting dangerously tight on free space. It contained...
2011-09-02
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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...
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