Red Pyramid
After having read the Percy Jackson series of books, I wanted to read a few more books by Rick Riordan....
2010-10-02
467 reads
Jason Brimhall
SQLSat 54
Wow, I have really been kinda slow in the blog department for a couple of weeks now. I have a...
2010-10-01
582 reads
TSQL Tuesday Indexes and Blobs
Woohoo – chugga chugga chugga chugga – woo woo. The train is pulling into town once again for another installment in the...
2010-09-15
1,743 reads
September S3OLV
Here is another short reminder about this months UG meeting in Las Vegas.
We will be meeting Thursday at the same...
2010-09-08
497 reads
September TSQL Tuesday
It is hard to believe that time is flying like it is. Already it has been a month since I...
2010-09-08
523 reads
Managing Contacts
This is one of those posts that has little to do with SQL Server and more to do with helping...
2010-09-06
560 reads
September S3OLV Meeting
Another month has crept up upon us. It is time once again for the Las Vegas User Group /PASS Chapter...
2010-09-03
488 reads
SQLSaturday SLC 2010
Well, I have taken another plunge. I finally got around to submitting a session for SQL Saturday Salt Lake City...
2010-09-01
509 reads
Defensive Db Programming Chapter 06
We are here again after another week and ready for another episode in this series. Today we get to talk...
2010-08-30
1,765 reads
Memory
Not a sound from the pavement. Have you ever come across a SQL query that used to run faster? Has that...
2010-08-30
5,561 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...
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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
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