Top 5 Advanced SQL Courses for 2025 (Must-Know)
Want to seriously boost your data skills? Mastering advanced SQL is the key, whether you're in data analysis, data science, or any field that uses data. Trust me, it's...
2024-12-17
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Blog Posts
How to Build Data Management for Unstructured Data
The post How to Build Data Management for Unstructured Data appeared first on Joyful Craftsmen.
2024-12-16 (first published: 2024-12-10)
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Monday Monitor Tips: Am I Patched?
One of the things that I think is neat is that Redgate Monitor helps you track patching on your systems. This is something that has been challenging in every...
2024-12-16 (first published: 2024-12-09)
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My 2024 in Data: Travels
This is my last week of the year working (I guess I come back on the 30th for a minute), so I decided to do some analysis of my...
2024-12-16
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Free SQL Training: Dive into Databases This December!
Want to learn SQL and get some real practice this December? Check out the Basic SQL Practice: A Store course – it's totally free for the entire month! This...
2024-12-14
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A New Word: Dolonia
dolonia – n. a state of unease prompted by people who seem to like you too much, which makes you wonder if they must have you confused with someone...
2024-12-13
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Cloudbrew 2024 – Slides
You can find the slides for the session Building the €100 data warehouse with the Azure Data Platform in this GitHub repo.
The post Cloudbrew 2024 – Slides first appeared...
2024-12-13
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FIRST_VALUE vs. Min: #SQLNewBlogger
I had mentioned some new T-SQL functions for SQL Server 2022 and a commenter asked about the difference between Min() and First_value. This post looks at a few cases....
2024-12-13 (first published: 2024-12-04)
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Trace Flag 3625 Follow Up
Several months ago, I discussed my customer’s intention to enable trace flag 3625. Since that time, we have observed an intriguing phenomenon when encountering a login failure. To demonstrate...
2024-12-13 (first published: 2024-12-10)
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AI Helping with an API
Can an AI help me with some database API work? Let’s see. This is part of a series of experiments with AI systems. The Scenario One of the things...
2024-12-11
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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