SQLSat403 – Recap
The doors close, lights turn off, and cars begin to pull out of the parking lot. Another SQL Saturday event...
2015-08-27
621 reads
The SQL Professor
SQLSat403 – Recap
The doors close, lights turn off, and cars begin to pull out of the parking lot. Another SQL Saturday event...
2015-08-27
339 reads
Addicted To Busy
Our world is made up of technology and being plugged in 24/7. As you walk down the street you may...
2015-07-30
1,035 reads
Addicted To Busy
Our world is made up of technology and being plugged in 24/7. As you walk down the street you may...
2015-07-30
721 reads
Without Borders – Getting Involved
One of the things I enjoy about the SQL community is the many people that you come into contact with....
2015-07-27 (first published: 2015-07-23)
412 reads
Without Borders – Getting Involved
One of the things I enjoy about the SQL community is the many people that you come into contact with....
2015-07-23
203 reads
SQL Saturday Field Notes
As you walk toward the entrance the door opens and there stands a volunteer smiling welcoming you in. You make...
2015-07-01
469 reads
SQL Saturday Field Notes
As you walk toward the entrance the door opens and there stands a volunteer smiling welcoming you in. You make...
2015-07-01
225 reads
Perspective
It’s one small word, but that one word can pack an awful powerful punch. I got a severe dose of...
2015-04-27
626 reads
Perspective
It’s one small word, but that one word can pack an awful powerful punch. I got a severe dose of...
2015-04-27
228 reads
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