Making Phone Calls from Azure Event Hub Messages
Recently I did a presentation at our local SQL Server User Group (SSUG) on Managing Streaming Data Pipelines Using Azure Data Services and as such wanted to build out...
2017-05-30
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Mr. Fox SQL
What Exactly is the “Data Platform” Nowadays?
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A couple of months ago I was presenting at SQL Saturday Melbourne (582) on Azure Cognitive...
2017-04-20 (first published: 2017-04-18)
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What Exactly is the “Data Platform” Nowadays?
[read this post on Mr. Fox SQL blog] A couple of months ago I was presenting at SQL Saturday Melbourne (582) on Azure Cognitive Services and got chatting with some of the...
2017-04-18
6 reads
A Collection of SQL Server Help Scripts
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Like probably every SQL DBA, consultant, architect etc etc out there that has ever worked...
2017-03-13
1,476 reads
A Collection of SQL Server Help Scripts
[read this post on Mr. Fox SQL blog] Like probably every SQL DBA, consultant, architect etc etc out there that has ever worked on or used SQL Server they will likely have...
2017-03-13
5 reads
Azure Cognitive Services Text Analytics – An API Calling Application
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Just last week we had the fantastic opportunity to present at Microsoft Ignite 2017 in...
2017-02-27 (first published: 2017-02-22)
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Azure Cognitive Services – Text Analytics API Application
[read this post on Mr. Fox SQL blog] [UPDATED 7 JUN 2020 – ADDED NEW TEXT ANALYTICS v3.0 FEATURES!] Just last week we had the fantastic opportunity to present at Microsoft...
2017-02-22
12 reads
SQL Saturday 582 Melbourne (11 Feb 2017) and Ignite 2017 (14-17 Feb 2017)
For those not aware there are 2 cool local and national events coming to both Melbourne and Gold Coast…
SQL Saturday582 (Sat...
2017-01-17
553 reads
SQL Saturday 582 Melbourne (11 Feb 2017) and Ignite 2017 (14-17 Feb 2017)
For those not aware there are 2 cool local and national events coming to both Melbourne and Gold Coast… SQL Saturday 582 (Sat 11 Feb 2017). Melbourne. For those looking for...
2017-01-17
4 reads
Azure Cognitive Services API’s with SQL Server 2016 CLR
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Azure Cognitive Services is relatively new functionality within Azure that exposes some truly amazing APIs that...
2016-09-20 (first published: 2016-09-12)
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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