SSIS – Send Errors to Message Box
While in the process of developing SSIS packages it’s likely you will deal with errors occasionally unless you’re the Superstar...
2009-08-09
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Devin Knight
SQL Saturday South Florida
Saturday I had the great opportunity to speak at SQL Saturday in South Florida. The event was great. It was...
2009-08-09
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HTTP 404 Not Found with Reporting Services and Windows 7
Here are some steps to fixing an issue I ran into with Window 7 and Reporting Services 2008. The problem...
2009-07-24
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Changing Startup News Feed in Visual Studio
Are you tired of the same old Microsoft news feed when you open Visual Studio (BIDS)? Why not go ahead...
2009-07-24
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SSIS Expressions Basics
For those that are new to SSIS, using expressions may seem very foreign and unpleasant. Not only is it a...
2009-07-23
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Better Know A SSIS Transform - Conditional Split
This is part 3 of my 29 part series called Better Know A SSIS Transform. Hopefully you will find the series...
2009-07-13
3,986 reads
Upcoming News and Events
There are a lot of exciting events happening in the next 2 months that you should be involved in so I...
2009-07-07
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Recovering Missing Templates in Visual Studio
Recently I decided to expand my coding knowledge and picked up a Visual Basic book. I’ve been working in this...
2009-07-06
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SSIS - Creating a Deployment Manifest
Using a Deployment Manifest in SSIS allows you to deploy a set of packages to a target location using a...
2009-06-30
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Better Know A SSIS Transform – The Sort Transform
This is part 2 of my 29 part series called Better Know A SSIS Transform. Hopefully you will find the...
2009-06-24
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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