The Job Outlook for 2008
What will happen in the job market for DBAs this year? Steve Jones gives a few opinions based on what is happening in the industry.
2008-01-02
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Editorial
Building a Better Career
It's important that you manage your career and not just leave it to chance. Steve Jones talks about what you might do to ensure that you'll be successful in the IT world.
2007-12-31
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2007-12-28
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Not So Anonymous
How anonymous are your ratings and other opinions on the Internet? Not as much as you might think.
2007-12-27
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The December Energy Update
Steve Jones takes a look at what's happening in the world of alternative energy, including cleaner nuclear power and energy from motion.
2007-12-26
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Compliance
Complying with software licensing is something you should do, but how far should companies take this?
2007-12-24
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When You're Out of the Office
What would you recommend for the holidays next week when the office is closed.
2007-12-21
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2007-12-20
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Obfuscation
Test data is critical to being sure your application works, but is production data ok to use in test environments?
2007-12-19
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Data Ownership
Who owns the data that we generate ourselves? It's not as easy to answer that as you think.
2007-12-18
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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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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