PASS SQL Saturday Events: November 2014
DateEventNovember 1 SQLSaturday #339 – Shanghai 2014November 1 SQLSaturday #337 – Oregon 2014November 22 SQLSaturday #355 – Parma, Italy 2014November 22 SQLSaturday #353...
2014-10-15
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Blog Posts
SSIS Pivot makes you stronger
At the recent Toronto SQL Server User group meeting Michal J Swart (@MJSwart) gave a good presentation based on 10...
2014-10-15
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Thank You: #passvotes
The results are in and it seems that I’ve been elected to a place on the PASS Board.
Thank you.
I will...
2014-10-15
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The full text error and why I was happy to see it.
The Situation: I was recently involved in the migration of a group of core databases from three SQL Server 2005 instances to...
2014-10-15 (first published: 2014-10-07)
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Upcoming conferences end of 2014: Microsoft Technical Server Summit, MVP Summit, PASS Summit, Microsoft Technical Summit
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Das Jahresende nähert sich in raschen Schritten. In den nächsten 3 Monaten stehen wieder mehrere Konferenzauftritte an.
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The end...
2014-10-15
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Webinar Q&A: SSRS Subscriptions and Data Alerts
Updated 10-16-2014 at 11:20 AM Eastern
Yesterday I presented about Change Data Capture for the Pragmatic Works Free Training on the...
2014-10-15
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#TSQL2sday #59 – My Heroes
Here is my list of heroes for #TSQL2sday. None of them are directly tied to technology, much less SQL Server....
2014-10-14
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Database Mirroring States (SQL Server)
SQL Server Database Mirroring has 5 different states. According to BOL (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189284.aspx) :- Mirroring state Description SYNCHRONIZING The contents of the mirror database are lagging behind the contents of...
2014-10-14
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Database Mirroring States (SQL Server)
SQL Server Database Mirroring has 5 different states. According to BOL (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189284.aspx) :-
Mirroring stateDescriptionSYNCHRONIZINGThe contents of the mirror database are...
2014-10-14
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Murder In Utah
I am about to set sail on a new venture with my next official whistle stop. This year has been plenty full of whistle stops and I plan on...
2014-10-14
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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...
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