Sin City SQL
Join Steve Jones and a few of the SQLServerCentral community in Las Vegas this fall at the SQL Connections conference.
2009-08-13
109 reads
Editorials
There's a Lot to Learn From Even Simple Puzzles
Phil reflects on the problem-solving power of SQLServerCentral at its best, and mentions some of the impressive contributions to the Summer SQL Stumpers competition
2009-08-11
421 reads
Backup to the Cloud - No Excuses
With the proliferation of high availability & specialist online Backup companies, do we really have any excuses left to NOT have an offsite backup location, even if it is in the Cloud? Brad things not...
2009-08-10
144 reads
Good for the Goose
This Friday's poll asks you about having a fair set of benefits for extra time work. Steve Jones wants to know how your employer treats you.
2009-08-07
124 reads
Loyalty Cards
Many businesses have loyalty programs to encourage repeat business. However do they think about data security when they build these programs? Steve Jones thinks they could do better.
2009-08-06
79 reads
Placing a Value on Data
What's your stolen data worth? It might be worth investigating, as Steve Jones suggests. Then you'll know how much you should be spending to protect it.
2009-08-05
81 reads
Building an API
Is it better to build an API into your code and allow someone to "plug in" or provide them with source code? Steve Jones thinks the former is better and gives you a few reasons why.
2009-08-04
227 reads
Be a Craftsman
Is software engineering dead? Some well respected software developers have stated that, and one says we should be craftsman, not engineers.
2009-08-03
158 reads
Uptime = Downtime? (Database Weekly, Aug 3, 2009)
Does too much uptime mean that you might be at risk for downtime? Steve Jones examines this idea in today's editorial.
2009-08-03
109 reads
Learn A Bit More
For this Friday's poll, Steve Jones talks about free training events and what their value is to you.
2009-07-31
124 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
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