SQLSaturday in Houston
I will be speaking at the Houston SQLSaturday this upcoming Saturday (April 21st). Below is info on my session, which...
2012-04-16
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Blog Posts
Three Mistakes Managers Make
I suppose there is an almost limitless number of mistakes that managers can do and do make, it’s the nature...
2012-04-16
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Adding , Deleting and Updating a Column in a table
Many times we need to alter the table definition by adding , deleting or updating a column in the table. In...
2012-04-15
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Derived Table In Sql Server
Derived tables:- Derived tables are the tables which are created on the fly with the help of the Select statement. It is...
2012-04-15
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Massively Parallel Processing and the Parallel Data Warehouse
Data growth is related to Moore’s law. As computers get faster and more powerful, we are using them to process...
2012-04-15
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New road to the SQL Server 2012 Certifications
MS has announced the new road for the SQL Server Certifications. All of the interested folks knows that the old...
2012-04-14
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Pivot and Unpivot table in SQL SERVER
Pivot Table:- Pivot tables are used to summarize and display the data, specially in case of report data by means...
2012-04-14
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So I started this blog…now what?
Date: May 19, 2012
Location: SQLSaturday #119, Chicago
Abstract:
Ever thought about trying your hand at blogging? Or maybe you’ve started a blog...
2012-04-14
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Tech Days Albania 2012
I’m very excited for the invitation to present at TechDays Albania 2012, which will be held on April 19, 2012...
2012-04-14
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I am a Linchpin Team Mate
Linchpin People, LLC is an organization led by Brian Moran and Andy Leonard with Mike Walsh and Robert Pearl as...
2012-04-13
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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...
Forums
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