Minimize permissions for file locations
When we talk about security, we often point to the Point of Least Privilege. I write a lot about applying...
2014-05-23 (first published: 2014-05-16)
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Blog Posts
Naked Statistics
A few weeks ago I stumbled up on this book review of Naked Statistics by Nathan Yau. The introduction on...
2014-05-23
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Reblog: May 16 to May 22
Photo credit – Travis
Ever go digging through your backyard for dinosaur bones? Maybe not, but it’s worthwhile from time to time...
2014-05-23
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Technical Interviews – How to Thrive
There’s a trick to technical interviews. Every question is looking for integrity first, and intelligence and energy second. This is...
2014-05-23 (first published: 2014-05-13)
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Wishing For Error Messages That Are Good Search Terms
Here’s a SQL error you might get:
not able to access the database “SomeDB” under the current security context.
If you don’t...
2014-05-23
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Advanced Google Analytics for SSIS
Update: There is a new 1.7 Version of Google Analytics Source for SSIS
This post is a continuation of the SSIS...
2014-05-22
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An Sp_addrolemember Gotcha
Over the past few months there have been a handful of times when I had to fix a security problem...
2014-05-22
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Getting Started with the Modern.ie VMs on VirtualBox with IIS Express
Microsoft has made pre-packaged Virtual Machine images available for purposes of testing different versions of IE via the modern.ie web...
2014-05-22
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Missing Indexes Script v2
Frequently we hear the analogy that <insert item here> is like opinions, everybody has one and not all of them...
2014-05-22 (first published: 2014-05-15)
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Speaking at SQLSaturday Rheinland, Germany 2014
It is with a great pleasure that I am happy to share that today I have received news of being...
2014-05-22
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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...
RANK() vs DENSE_RANK(): #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I haven’t done one of these in awhile, but I saw an article recently...
Forums
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...
Missing the Jaro Winkler Distance
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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