I Need a CS Degree. I Don't Need a CS Degree
Steve has a few thoughts on how valuable education can be in your career.
2024-11-01
111 reads
Career Growth
Knowing Your Total Reward
When you agree to work for a company, you should understand all your compensation.
2024-10-25
164 reads
Unstuck
Have you ever been stuck in some area of your life? Maybe at work? That big project. Progressing in your career. The slow query that seems impossible to make faster. Learning new skills to switch careers. Maybe outside of work? The weekend home project that’s been going on for more than a few weekends… possibly […]
2024-09-28
83 reads
2024-09-04
394 reads
5 Ways to Spend Your 2024 Learning and Development Budget in the US
Not many data professionals get a personal Learning and Development (L&D) budget that we can use at our discretion. This is something I encourage you to negotiate when you are considering a job or at your annual review. We all need to learn and a budget signifies your boss cares about you.
2024-08-23
What Do You Drop?
Time is a valuable resource in your lives, and when you decide to tackle something, something else gets dropped.
2024-08-16
100 reads
A Checklist for Learning
A checklist can be helpful, but it needs to be more than a list of things if it's going to drive your career.
2024-08-12
425 reads
Hiring in IT and Relevance of Domain Experience
When choosing to hire someone, do you want experience or freshness? A few thoughts from someone that had to go through this recently.
2024-08-12
1,417 reads
The Biggest Database Professional Challenges Today
What are the biggest challenges you face today? Steve asks the question and is hoping for a few answers from you.
2024-07-22
186 reads
What Do You Want to Learn?
There's a survey available to give your input for what topics you'd like to learn about at the next SQL Saturday.
2024-06-24
111 reads
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
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is it true we cant debug c# scripts in ssis anymore under vs
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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