SQL Tribal Knowledge
Ever felt like trying your hand at writing? November is National Novel Writing Month (or NaNoWriMo for our savvy readers). ...
2011-11-04
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Blog Posts
SQLSaturday #86 in Tampa–Tomorrow!
With a little bit of luck I’ll be arriving in Orlando today around 9 am as I return from SQLConnections...
2011-11-04
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SQLSaturday #96 in DC - 11/5/2011
Coming to the Capitol, tomorrow Saturday, November 5, 2011 is SQLSaturday#96 in Washington, D.C.! This great event down in DC,...
2011-11-04
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Things I Favorited on Twitter (a weekly wrapup, of sorts)
Each Friday on @Midnight">DBAs@Midnight (my live weekly webshow, 11pm CST at webshow.MidnightDBA.com!) I don’t feel like I have enough time...
2011-11-04
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What is SQL PASS?
A few weeks ago I asked a colleague, who is a DBA, if he was going to the SQL PASS...
2011-11-04
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Why I'm Running For The PASS Board Of Directors
If you read this week's onnector email you may have noticed that I'm one of the six candidates who have...
2011-11-04
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Why SQL Server is using so LESS memory
Today I want to talk about a phenomenon regarding memory management in SQL Server.
A few weeks ago I had a...
2011-11-04
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An Attempt to Make SSIS Package Deployment More Reasonable
Full disclosure: There might be a better way to do this. I am not aware of it.
Problems:
Maintaining multiple DB environments...
2011-11-03
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Another Color Wheel
Some time ago, I had the opportunity to work on a problem involving the color wheel. The requirements for that...
2011-11-03
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Another Color Wheel
Some time ago, I had the opportunity to work on a problem involving the color wheel. The requirements for that problem lent themselves to a solution involving bitwise operations...
2011-11-03
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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...
Forums
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