COOL Projects!
K-SSIS-ed A re-envisioned IDE for SSIS packages, jump here
SSDT Dev Pack A few helpers to make using SSDT slightly better,...
2015-02-16
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Blog Posts
COOL Projects!
K-SSIS-ed A re-envisioned IDE for SSIS packages, jump here
SSDT Dev Pack A few helpers to make using SSDT slightly better, the killer feature for me is quickly deploying the...
2015-02-16
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Dealing with layered function calls
T-SQL is not the best language in the world for formatting strings. It can be done, but typically you are...
2015-02-16 (first published: 2015-02-05)
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On Failure: Getting Up
In my continuing series entitled “On Failure”, I want to talk about skiing.
I’m not a great skier. It would probably...
2015-02-16 (first published: 2015-02-06)
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SSDT all the way
I generally write T-SQL code in SSDT (Sql Server Data Tools) and find that I often publish to my local...
2015-02-16
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SSDT all the way
I generally write T-SQL code in SSDT (Sql Server Data Tools) and find that I often publish to my local...
2015-02-16
31 reads
SSDT all the way
I generally write T-SQL code in SSDT (Sql Server Data Tools) and find that I often publish to my local...
2015-02-16
652 reads
SSDT all the way
I generally write T-SQL code in SSDT (Sql Server Data Tools) and find that I often publish to my local database instance and then test the actual code in...
2015-02-16
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Consolidating time series metadata for users in Tabular
Background
DAX offers many powerful time intelligence functions that can be applied at virtually any level of a date / time hierarchy....
2015-02-13 (first published: 2015-02-04)
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Friday Followup For February 13, 2015
It’s Friday, time to look back at the most popular RealSQLGuy posts of the week. Because it’s Friday and you’re...
2015-02-13
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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...
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