Football Update
Well the World Cup is now half way through, 32 games played, 32 games to go. The talk here in...
2010-06-21
492 reads
Gethyn Ellis
SQL Server MasterClass
This Thursday gone, (June 18th) I went to a hotel near Heathrow airport in London for what was titled a...
2010-06-21
804 reads
Finding Duplicates
This is just a short post that uses a contrived example to demonstrate how to find duplicate records in a...
2010-06-18
1,111 reads
The Football World Cup
This day only comes around once in every four years, we've all been waiting for it for months. It's been...
2010-06-11
593 reads
SSMS 2008 and changing a SQL 2005 SA password.
You can probably tell from some of my more recent posts that I have been doing some work lately on...
2010-06-09
1,685 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #007 - Policy Based Management
It's that time of the month again, time for the next round of T-SQL Tuesday posts. This month is being...
2010-06-08
981 reads
Cannot Connect to SQL Server
I recently installed a new SQL Server 2008 instance on a brand new Windows 2008 R2. When I tried to...
2010-06-07
644 reads
SQL Server 2008 Installation Fails to Start
Recently I have been installing a new SQL Server 2008 instance on Vmware vSphere based virtual server, the OS was...
2010-06-04
1,198 reads
Weekly Update - Internet Issues
I haven’t written anything technical or SQL Server related for that matter on my blog for a few of weeks....
2010-06-03
636 reads
2010-06-02
627 reads
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