Microsoft’s free virtual labs
If you have spent any time looking around my site, you will notice that I love study materials and in...
2014-05-26
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Blog Posts
NodeXL – Accessible Network Graph Analysis, part 2
This is the second blog post in the series dedicated to the Network Graph Analysis Tool – NodeXL.
If you are interested,...
2014-05-26
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2014-05-26
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Speaking at SQLSaturday #310 in Dublin/Ireland
(Be sure to checkout the FREE SQLpassion Performance Tuning Training Plan – you get a weekly email packed with all the...
2014-05-26
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SQL Code Guard. New release 2.5.5257
Today we released new version of SQL Code Guard, 2.5.5257
Main changes:
SQL Code Guard is digitally signed now to satisfy corporate...
2014-05-26
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Useful Links for learning & using in Data Quality Projects in SQL Server
Data Quality Services in SQL Server is a component that is based around the concept of knowledge-driven quality.
Here comes a...
2014-05-26
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NodeXL – Accessible Network Graph Analysis, part 1
This is the first blog post in a series on one of the most awesome free analytical tools that is...
2014-05-25
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Presentation slides for Modern Data Warehousing
Thanks to everyone who attended my session “Modern Data Warehousing” for Pragmatic Works last Thursday. The abstract for my session is below...
2014-05-25
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Building The SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan–Part 11
Just received the first flyer design – thoughts?
2014-05-24
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Building The SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan–Part 12
Meetup.com did refund my $19, good!
Team oPASS added SQLSaturday #318 to their calendar, you can see it here, or here’s...
2014-05-24
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Blogs
RANK() vs DENSE_RANK(): #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I haven’t done one of these in awhile, but I saw an article recently...
Using CAT for Testing of Data Agents
In last months one of the scenarios where you can use AI has been...
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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