Better Presentations–Zoom
This is part of a series of tips for speakers on how to make your presentations better.
I’ve given around 30...
2014-09-16
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Blog Posts
DBA in the Cloud: Threat or Opportunity?
Five years ago the term “cloud” was still a buzzword, and there was a lot of uncertainty and misconception around...
2014-09-16
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DevConnections 2014
It’s time for Devconnections again, and I’m back in Las Vegas for the conference. This is a great conference if...
2014-09-16
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PASS Summit 2014 Pre-Conference Seminar
I’m putting on a pre-conference seminar (also known as a pre-con) at the PASS Summit this year. I’m really honored...
2014-09-16
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Performance/ Management Data Warehouse Data Collector & AlwaysOn Availability Groups
Verwaltungs-Data Warehouse Datensammler & AlwaysOn Hochverfügbarkeitsgruppen
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This time, we are dealing with the „MDW“, short for Management Data Warehouse,(msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb677306.aspx), which I like...
2014-09-16
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Speaking at SQLSaturday #311 Bulgaria
More good news! I will be speaking on SQLSaturday #311 Bulgaria.
If you read this blog and will attend the event,...
2014-09-16
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SQL – List Primary key and Concatenate composite Keys into a single row separed by comma
The following query lists all the Primary keys of all the table.
OP has requested to list all PK and composite...
2014-09-16 (first published: 2014-09-10)
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SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan-Part 43
I’ve got most of the messages up through Sep 27th drafted. Still need to tweak a couple, but close to...
2014-09-16
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We’re On
We crossed the $10k mark for the Argenis Without Borders campaign, meaning that Brent, Grant, Adam, Gail, and myself will...
2014-09-16
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Creation & Deletion of Database Snapshot by SQL Agent Job
Some days back, I received one query on my facebook page that user want to create Database Snapshot frequently & want...
2014-09-15
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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...
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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