Goodbye, 2013
For me, 2013 was one of the most interesting and busy years of my life. It was a good year...
2014-01-01
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Tim Mitchell
MVP Award for 2014
Earlier this morning I received a notification from the Microsoft MVP program that I’ve been recognized as a SQL Server...
2014-01-01
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PASS Summit 2013 Keynote, Day 2
Today is the second day of the 2013 SQL PASS Summit, and I’m again live blogging the event.
8:15: Here...
2013-10-17
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PASS Summit 2013 Keynote, Day 1
Today is the first full day of the PASS Summit 2013 conference. This year I’m again joining the blogger table...
2013-10-16
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It’s Election Season
It’s that time of the year again – time to make your voice heard as a PASS member. The PASS board...
2013-09-25
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SQL Saturday 223 OKC
This past weekend I made the relatively short (about 3 hours) trip to the Oklahoma City area to attend and...
2013-08-26
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My event schedule for Fall 2013
As I was browsing my calendar of upcoming events for the remainder of the summer and the fall, I realized...
2013-08-16
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Join me for the 2013 Biml Workshop
Of the many emerging technologies I’m currently using, there’s nothing that excites me more than Biml. If you’re not familiar...
2013-08-21 (first published: 2013-08-14)
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Continue Package Execution After Error in SSIS
When it comes to ETL, I’m a pessimist. Until proven otherwise, I assume that all data is bad, all connections...
2013-08-05
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Are you really an expert?
Through the course of my career, I’ve spent time on both sides of the job interview table, which has given...
2013-08-02
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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