SQLSaturday #52 - Colorado Details
What is SQL Saturday?
SQLSaturday is a training event for SQL Server professionals and those wanting to learn about SQL Server....
2010-09-12
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Marc Beacom
Speaking at a SSWUG vConference
I was asked recently by Chris Shaw who is the site manager for SSWUG.org, if I was interested in speaking...
2009-09-27
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Denver SQL Server User Group Board Meeting Notes from 20090901
To address a few questions on what does the board actually do and to bring more visibility to all of...
2009-09-10
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Project Gemini
Dan English put up a blog post on his experiences with installing Gemini. His post is loaded with screen shots...
2009-08-31
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24 Hours of PASS
Image a full day of SQL Server and BI training. Even better yet, a full day of FREE training. Well PASS (Professional...
2009-08-24
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Presentation materials: Intro to Analysis Services (SSAS)
I did a presentation last week for the Denver SQL Server User Group (www.DenverSQL.org) and the Colorado Springs SQL Server User Group...
2009-06-26
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Denver SQL Server User Group Meeting - Tonight (20090219)!
Denver SQL Server User Group:
A “Biking Buddy” Adventure Works hospitality report. Always have something in common to talk about with...
2009-02-19
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Analysis Services 2005 Deployment Wizard - Built by Design (Bug)
We use the Analysis Services Deployment Wizard when moving our cubes from Dev to QA and then QA to Prod. ...
2009-01-07
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Code Name "Kilimanjaro" - A couple of new features
I attended this years PASS Summit in Seattle and it turned out to be a great event. Many of the...
2008-12-04
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Clearing the Analysis Services Cache
You will see this or a similar code sample when referring to clearing the analysis services cache. However, I have...
2008-12-02
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Blogs
A bespoke reporting solution doesn’t have to cost the earth
By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
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...
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