SQL Saturday
I've just received notice that I will be a presenter at the upcoming SQL Saturday event in Jacksonville, Florida. I'll...
2008-03-30
1,530 reads
Tim Mitchell
Give us SP3!
There has been a great deal of wailing and gnashing of teeth regarding the scuttlebutt that SP2 will be the...
2008-03-12
703 reads
We Are Microsoft Charity Challenge Weekend
This weekend, I had the unique opportunity to donate some time to a worthwhile charity organization. Through the efforts of...
2008-01-21
841 reads
On the Importance of Documentation...
It seems that I keep inheriting old systems that provide a singular, albeit mission critical, function to their owners. In...
2008-01-09
537 reads
Passed 70-431
After putting it off for six months, I finally took - and passed - 70-431 yesterday. I know, I'm probably one of...
2007-11-25
1,437 reads
PASS and new SSC design
I'm rarely a "needy" guy, but I have to admit that I'm feeling a little left out. Due to project...
2007-09-23
1,447 reads
Working in solitude
If you've spent much time at all reading Steve Jones's blog posts and SSC editorials, you quickly glean that he...
2007-07-12
1,485 reads
Gartner Developer Conference
It's been quite a week at the Gartner Application Development and Integration converence here in Nashville. I've never been to...
2007-06-13
2,003 reads
Webcast on exceptions and errors in SQL Server
When you have an hour to spare, jump over and view this useful discussion about errors and exceptions in SQL...
2007-05-21
1,447 reads
SQL Server SP2 released
Today, Microsoft released Service Pack 2 for SQL Server 2005. Though mostly a series of fixes for minor issues, there...
2007-02-19
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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