Un-retiring
Would you leave technology and come back to it as a career? It seems that many people are afraid of doing it, but Steve Jones talks about why it shouldn't matter.
2008-08-05
158 reads
Editorials
Infinite Seizure - Database Weekly (2008/8/4)
This week's Database Weekly editorial examines the US policy of potentially seizing laptops for an infinite period when you enter the country.
2008-08-04
117 reads
Pimp My Data Center
Steve Jones talks about the changing capabilities and flexibilities of data centers as technologies change.
2008-08-04
114 reads
Social Profiling
This Friday Steve Jones talks about the social networking phenomenon and asks how it should affect your career?
2008-08-01
152 reads
You Are a Professional, So Speak Up
You are hired for your ideas so share them, it can only help your career.
2008-07-31
184 reads
Stored Procedures Reconsidered
A guest editorial from Scott White that looks at the use of stored procedures from a developer's point of view.
2008-07-30
1,348 reads
The July Car Update (2008)
With the price of gas rising and no end in sight. Steve Jones steps back to talk a bit about what solutions there might be to ease the burdens on everyone.
2008-07-29
119 reads
Lazy Developers - Database Weekly (2008/07/28)
Developers tend to be lazy in Steve Jones' view. This week he examines some of the problems that this lack of effort can cause in applications.
2008-07-28
500 reads
The More Things Change ...
Steve Jones talks about how IT hasn't changed very much over the years and how your career might not be that different in ten years.
2008-07-28
203 reads
Service Accounts
A Friday poll from Steve Jones looks at service accounts and how you deal with passwords.
2008-07-25
778 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