Minnesota SQL Server Study Group
Study Time!
A few weeks back, I sent a message on the PASSMN LinkedIn group page about expanding the MCM study...
2011-05-09
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StrateSQL
Re-blog – April 29-May 5
As I mentioned in the introductory post, I’m summarizing posts from previous years in the the past week. Some posts...
2011-05-06
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SQLRally–Don’t Forget Your Business Cards?
SQLRally is a week away. Are you ready? It’s going to be a good time to learn and freshen up...
2011-05-04
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Meme Monday – “I got 99 problems but a disk ain’t one”
Earlier today, Thomas LaRock (Blog | @SQLRockstar) tagged me for his Meme Monday post. The question for today is: how many...
2011-05-02
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Re-blog – April 22-28
As I mentioned in the introductory post, I’m summarizing posts from previous years in the the past week. Some posts...
2011-04-29
1,455 reads
Re-Blog – April 15-21
As I mentioned in the introductory post, I’m summarizing posts from previous years in the the past week. Some posts...
2011-04-22
567 reads
MCM: To pass, or not to pass
I’ve been counting down the days until I get the score from my second attempt at the SQL Server MCM...
2011-04-19
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April PASSMN Meeting Tomorrow
I mentioned the April PASSMN meeting the other day… well now that meeting is tomorrow. Take a chance to invest...
2011-04-18
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Re-Blog – April 8-14
As I mentioned in the introductory post, I’m summarizing posts from previous years in the the past week. Some posts...
2011-04-15
572 reads
Re-Blogging Posts
Over the last couple months, I’ve been trying to figure out what to do with some of my old posts. ...
2011-04-14
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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