A Server Bench
This past weekend I was doing some early Spring cleaning and decided it was time to throw out two old...
2014-01-15
631 reads
SQLAndy
Should You Run For the PASS Board? How Do You Decide?
Here are some of the questions I ask when someone is thinking about running for the Board:
Are you eligible? Read...
2014-01-15
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Google Buys Nest
I was a bit sad to see that Google bought Nest. I like upstarts that see a problem and solve...
2014-01-14
629 reads
Time to Plan For Running For The PASS Board
I know it’s only January, but if you’re at all considering being a candidate you need to get going now....
2014-01-14
434 reads
Security, Compliance, and SQL Server Webinar on January 29, 2014
My first webinar of the year! I’m joining forces with the GreenSQL and MSSQLTips to present Security, Compliance, and SQL...
2014-01-27 (first published: 2014-01-13)
979 reads
Bradley Ball at MagicPASS on January 15, 2014
First meeting of the year with Bradley Ball presenting Locking, Blocking, Latches, Deadlocks, and Spinlocks. Let them know you’ll be...
2014-01-13
662 reads
The SQLSaturday Wiki–Revisited
I saw a discussion on Twitter yesterday where Kendal Van Dyke referenced the SQLSaturday wiki as a resource, I thought...
2014-01-10
385 reads
Schedule Time To Review Your Passwords & Using a Password Manager
I use a password manager and it currently has more than 150 accounts in it, ranging from my checking account...
2014-01-17 (first published: 2014-01-10)
1,804 reads
How To Campaign For the PASS Board
Let’s say you’ve decided to run, good! What do you do next? I’m not going to give you a blueprint...
2014-01-10
391 reads
Two-Factor Authentication
Something you have and something you know – that’s the heart of two-factor, sometimes called multi-factor, authentication. RSA was for years...
2014-01-15 (first published: 2014-01-09)
6,349 reads
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