Reviewing the PASS 2015 Budget
I just spent a few minutes reviewing the 2015 PASS budget, things that I noticed:
Anticipating a change in revenue of...
2014-08-21
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SQLAndy
SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan-Part 37
I’m continuing to experiment with the messaging. Without A/B testing (and maybe even with, given the small list size) it’s...
2014-08-20
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Being a Volunteer Leader Is Hard
I’ve been thinking about this topic for a few weeks, maybe longer. It’s based on the three years I served...
2014-08-20
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The End of The Professional Association Of SQL Server? It Should Be More Than Just An Acronym
I read with a bit of despair this post by Denise McInerney this morning. Going forward, it’s just “PASS”. Somehow...
2014-08-20
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Joint oPASS/MagicPASS Meeting Scheduled for October 15, 2014- Featuring Mark Souza In Person!
Big news for us in Orlando! On October 15th Mark Souza, General Manager – Data Platform Group at Microsoft, is going...
2014-08-19
579 reads
SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan-Part 36
Just checked in on my LinkedIn campaign. This is the one that uses job titles. Not a ton of impressions,...
2014-08-18
502 reads
SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan-Part 35
Quick update on registrations. We’re at 287 as of noon on August 15th, not bad. The blue part of the...
2014-08-15
517 reads
Notes From the August 14, 2014 ONETUG Meeting
ONETUG team graciously gave me time at the beginning of the meeting to talk about the upcoming SQLSaturday OrlandoAsked them...
2014-08-15
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SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan-Part 34
Tuesday we sent our metronomic email of the week. No huge call to action this week. My schedule called for...
2014-08-14
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Tableau Conference Is Bigger Than PASS Summit
I was reading http://paultebraak.wordpress.com/2014/08/11/the-wisdom-of-the-tableau-crowd/ and, no disrespect intended at all to the Tableau universe, I was astounded to see that...
2014-08-13
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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