2018-12-18
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Editorial
The Wild Developers of SQL Server like Wildcards
Phil Factor explains the enduring attachment of database developers to wildcards, despite their current deficiencies.
2025-03-17 (first published: 2018-12-17)
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I may need to re-think the use of table variables
Table variables have been fixed in SQL 2019, so now I have to decide if I will use them again.
2024-07-26 (first published: 2018-12-11)
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The Worst Data Breech
A new law in Australia might be a source for the worst data breeches we could have.
2018-12-10
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2018-12-07
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2020-01-28 (first published: 2018-12-06)
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Lax Security is Harmful for Employment
Data breaches do more than harm an organization. There's a human cost.
2018-12-05
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2018-12-04
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2018-12-03
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Data with Provenance
File systems and document databases are the wild lands of data privacy. Phil Factor explains the value of JSON Schema in adding provenance to your document data.
2018-12-03
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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