2009 Goals in Review
Late last year, I blogged about some goals I had set for myself to accomplish during 2009. No goal-setting session...
2010-01-01
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Tim Mitchell
The Numbers Don’t Lie… Except When They Do
There are few things more reassuring for a data professional than having clean, consistent data to back up critical business...
2009-12-08
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Upcoming Speaking Engagements for December 2009
Next week, I have the honor of presenting two different sessions on SSIS. These 2 events are the last speaking...
2009-12-07
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Electronic Health Records – What’s the Big Deal? (Part 3)
In the previous post in this series, I discussed the obstacles to implementing electronic health data systems. Because of these...
2009-12-03
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BIDN.com Launch Today
For those interested in the SQL Server BI space, there is a new online resource launching today. Brian Knight and...
2009-12-01
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SQL Saturday Dallas – Registration and Call for Speakers is Open!
I’m happy to announce that SQL Saturday Dallas is officially scheduled, and the registration and call for speakers is open. ...
2009-11-30
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Ft. Worth SQL Server User Group Meeting Recap
I’d like to say thanks to Andy and Judith over at the Ft. Worth SQL Server User Group for having...
2009-11-26
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Speaking at Ft. Worth SQL Server UG on Wednesday
If you’re in the Ft. Worth area next Wednesday, November 18, please join me at the Ft. Worth SQL Server...
2009-11-13
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SQL PASS Summit 2009 – Parting Thoughts
So now that we’re 7 days removed from the end of the SQL PASS summit, I’ve finally managed to arrange...
2009-11-13
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SQL PASS Summit 2009 – Day 3
The day started off with the Quest Software breakfast presentation, to which I arrived late to find a standing-room-only crowd. ...
2009-11-04
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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...
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