Perspective
It’s one small word, but that one word can pack an awful powerful punch. I got a severe dose of...
2015-04-27
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Blog Posts
Perspective
It’s one small word, but that one word can pack an awful powerful punch. I got a severe dose of...
2015-04-27
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The May Blogger Challenge–Continuing On
Last month I participated in Ed Leighton-Dick’s April Challenge. My four posts were tagged the April Challenge, and this month...
2015-04-27
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The SSIS Object Variable and Multiple Result Sets
In my most recent post in this series, I talked about how to use the SSIS object variable as an...
2015-04-27
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Upcoming SQL Saturday Precon Sessions
I have two exciting SQL Saturday preconference training sessions coming up in the month of May!
The first is my Virtualization...
2015-04-27
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What SQL version is my SSIS package?
When SSIS first came out there were huge numbers of jokes and posts about all of the problems and how...
2015-04-27
1,102 reads
2015-04-26
How to send E-mail/E-mail with Attachments in SQL Server TIP #97
In last post, TIP#96 We have configured Database E-mail. Now in this post we will see how to send mail...
2015-04-26
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Microsoft DataZen Mobile Platform Available to Enterprise Customers for Free
Last week Microsoft announced that they had acquired the DataZen mobile BI platform and were adding it to their enterprise...
2015-04-26
468 reads
Microsoft DataZen Mobile Platform Available to Enterprise Customers for Free
Last week Microsoft announced that they had acquired the DataZen mobile BI platform and were adding it to their enterprise...
2015-04-26
202 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
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