MDX Puzzle #5
Writing YTD totals and Running totals using T-SQL can take a little effort. However, with MDX it's not too difficult. ...
2010-08-01
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Patrick LeBlanc
MDX Puzzle #4 - Solution
This puzzle may not have been much of a challenge, but it introduced two new MDX concepts. I have to...
2010-07-30
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2010 3rd Quarter Goals
Now that we are into the third quarter of 2010 I decided to post an update of my 2nd quarter...
2010-07-28
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MDX Puzzle #4
This puzzle is rather simple, but it does introduce a few new things. Using T-SQL you typically filter queries with...
2010-07-28
551 reads
SQL Saturday Wiki
This past weekend I had the opportunity to hangout with some of the brightest upcoming SQL Server Professionals and a...
2010-07-25
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SQL Server 2008 R2 for the DBA Recording and PowerPoint
I recently had the opportunity to do two presentation on SQL Server R2 for the DBA. In the first session...
2010-07-23
531 reads
.NET speaker Idol, Guess who won?
Last night (July 21, 2010) I had the honor of being a speaker at the Baton Rouge .Net User Group. ...
2010-07-22
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Free Data Warehouse Training - SQL Lunch #27 Let's Get Dimensional
Join Adam Jorgensen, tomorrow on the SQL Lunch to learn about Dimensional Modeling. Go to SQL Lunch and add this...
2010-07-21
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SQL Server 2008 R2 for the DBA Webcast
Tomorrow at 11:00 AM EST I will be giving a talk on SQL Server 2008 R2 for the DBA. Here...
2010-07-21
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Practice Your PASS Session on the SQL Lunch
We at the SQL Lunch would like to extend an invitation to all of the PASS speakers. If you are...
2010-07-18
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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...
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AllocationType as ROW_OVERFLOW_DATA
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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