Appending New Rows Only
I saw a question in the forums related to inserting new rows into a SQL Server table only if they...
2012-04-27
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Blog Posts
Big Apple SQL - SQLSaturday #158 NYC Announced!
Come this August 4th, 2012, the Big Apple will be baking, but not just because of the hot summer day...
2012-04-27
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Comments on Acceptable Behavior
Here’s the situation. We’re absolutely falling down as men and professionals. Ladies, feel free to read on and comment, but...
2012-04-27 (first published: 2012-04-23)
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Cool Data Visualization
I attended a course from Edward Tufte a few years ago on Data Visualization, and while I learned some neat...
2012-04-27
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Slacking Off: Totally TED
Lately I’ve taken to watching TED talks in the evening. They’re thought-provoking, usually entertaining, and, best of all when watching...
2012-04-27
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SQL Saturday Houston #107 Recap
I enjoyed a long weekend in Houston starting with Kalen Delaney’s Pre-con on Query Tuning. I have learned over the...
2012-04-27
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SSIS Data Flow Tuning
During my SSWUG webcast I was asked to give some examples on how to tune
the DefaultBufferMaxRows and DefaultBufferSize, so here goes.
When a source is pulling in data, it places them into...
2012-04-27
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SSIS Data Flow Tuning
During my SSWUG webcast I was asked to give some examples on how to tune the DefaultBufferMaxRows and DefaultBufferSize, so here goes.
When a source is pulling in data, it...
2012-04-27
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SSIS Data Flow Tuning
During my SSWUG webcast I was asked to give some examples on how to tune the DefaultBufferMaxRows and DefaultBufferSize, so...
2012-04-27
2,814 reads
AlwaysOn Failover Bug
I just found a little bug in AlwaysOn. It’s actually not that big a deal, but it’s interesting. In a...
2012-04-26
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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