Updated blog Site
This post is mainly to test the syndication still works correctly from my heavily updated web/blog site so apologies for...
2014-11-12
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Blog Posts
Versioning In Your SQL Database
What Is The Point of Versioning?
How do you know change occurs in your database?
Now, I’m not talking about version control,...
2014-11-12 (first published: 2014-11-07)
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#tsql2sday #60 – Something New Learned – Problem Step Recorder
What is T-SQL Tuesday?
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different blogger each month. This blog party...
2014-11-11
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Consuming the Output of an SSIS Package in a Client Application
Typically, making the output of an SSIS Package available to a client application for further processing is achieved by outputting...
2014-11-11
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I’m Still Not on the Board
I’m just back from the PASS Summit 2014. What a great event. But this year, it was a little different....
2014-11-11
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Join me in DC for a full day of Biml
I’m excited to announce that my Linchpin People colleague Reeves Smith and I will be delivering a full day Biml...
2014-11-11
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PASS Summit 2014 – It’s not you, it’s me
After an exciting week at the PASS Summit, I’m back home with my family. This was my first ever PASS...
2014-11-11
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PASS Summit 2014 in Review
I’m finally completely recovered from a great week in Seattle last week for PASS Summit. Now that it’s back to...
2014-11-11
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PASS Summit 2014 in Review
I’m finally completely recovered from a great week in Seattle last week for PASS Summit. Now that it’s back to...
2014-11-11
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Power Testing ETL with Power BI – The Process
This is a short blog series on using Power BI tools to support testing ETL processes. I have presented on...
2014-11-11
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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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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