Why I’m Breaking Up with Facebook
I have been in a serious relationship for more than 12 years. My partner in this relationship has brought me...
2019-01-11 (first published: 2019-01-01)
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Tim Mitchell
Why I’m Breaking Up with Facebook
I have been in a serious relationship for more than 12 years. My partner in this relationship has brought me joy through the years, but lately, I feel like...
2019-01-01
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A Better Way to Clean Up the SSIS Catalog Database
Earlier this week, I blogged about the automatic cleanup process that purges old data from the SSIS catalog logging tables....
2018-12-30
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A Better Way to Clean Up the SSIS Catalog Database
Earlier this week, I blogged about the automatic cleanup process that purges old data from the SSIS catalog logging tables. This nightly process removes data for operations that are...
2018-12-30
9 reads
Personal Touch: An Argument Against Automation
At the far end of an out-of-the-way aging strip shopping center in southern Louisiana, there stands a small and modest...
2018-12-20
213 reads
Personal Touch: An Argument Against Automation
At the far end of an out-of-the-way aging strip shopping center in southern Louisiana, there stands a small and modest sushi restaurant. The exterior could be described as tasteful...
2018-12-20
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SSIS Catalog Automatic Log Cleanup
Built into the SSIS catalog is a mechanism that can automatically purge log data after a set period of time....
2019-01-01 (first published: 2018-12-19)
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SSIS Catalog Automatic Log Cleanup
Built into the SSIS catalog is a mechanism that can automatically purge log data after a set period of time. In this post, I’ll show you how to set...
2018-12-19
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SSIS Catalog Execution Parameter Values
When doing any new development or major overhaul of existing SSIS architecture, I almost always recommend to clients that they...
2018-12-18
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SSIS Catalog Execution Parameter Values
When doing any new development or major overhaul of existing SSIS architecture, I almost always recommend to clients that they deploy those packages to the SSIS catalog. Using the...
2018-12-18
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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...
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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