Reconciling SPNs
As part of troubleshooting Kerberos authentication for SQL Server I had to verify SPNs so I thought I’d blog about...
2012-02-20
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Blog Posts
Selected to Speak at SQLRally 2012
I was excited to receive the email on Friday that I’d been selected to present at SQLRally #2 in Dallas...
2012-02-20
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Sorry...
I've been offline for a week to take some annual leave and recharge my batteries. To make up for the...
2012-02-20
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Speaking at PASS DBA Virtual Chapter
I will be speaking for the PASS DBA Virtual Chapter on February 22nd, 2012. I will be delivering my presentation on...
2012-02-20
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SQL Rally: Don't Vote for my Sessions
So I found out on Friday that I am going to be a speaker at the Dallas SQL Rally, which...
2012-02-20
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SQL Rally: Don’t Vote for My Sessions
So I found out on Friday that I am going to be a speaker at the Dallas SQL Rally, which...
2012-02-20
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SQL Server – Powershell Active Directory search
Working with Powershell and Active Directory simplifies some complex tasks for the DBA.
Active Directory is LDAP compliant. This means the...
2012-02-20
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SQL Server 2012 (“Denali”): PowerPivot
Version 2 of PowerPivot (download) is being made available with SQL Server 2012. There are many new features, and my top 5 are:
Diagram...
2012-02-20
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SSRS – Creating a Reporting Services Web Farm
Reporting Services performance problems can often be narrowed down to report design or resource constraints and sometimes a combination of...
2012-02-20
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SSRS – Embedding Refreshable Reports in Office Tools
Have you ever experienced this?
You have developed a set of Reporting Services report that your users love and they often...
2012-02-20 (first published: 2012-02-14)
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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...
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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