Planning Your Upgrade Well
Yesterday I talked about the importance of having a tested business recovery plan. If you didn't read yesterday's post, the...
2011-06-07
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Blog Posts
Pragmatic Tools: DTSxChange (Or DTS Must Die!)
Ah DTS packages…they suck. Seriously, it’s 2011. It’s been over a decade and we still have SQL 2000 and DTS...
2011-06-07
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T-SQL Enhancement: Sequence
Many applications need sequentially incremental number as unique/primary key for records. SQL Server 2008 supports identity columns as the primary...
2011-06-07
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T-SQL Enhancements in SQL Server Denali (2011)
In the next couple of weeks we’ll do a series of blog posts with some of the T-SQL enhancements that...
2011-06-07
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A Welcome Break
I’m not working, though I have checked some email and kept an eye on a few things while I’m in...
2011-06-06
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Column order can matter
Ordinarily, column order of a SQL statement does not matter.
Select a,b,c
from table
will produce the same execution plan as Select c,b,a
from...
2011-06-06
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Great white paper: Microsoft EDW Architecture, Guidance and Deployment Best Practices
A fantastic white paper just released: Microsoft EDW Architecture, Guidance and Deployment Best Practices.
It’s a must read if you are...
2011-06-06
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Improved partition loading
We have a table that contains just over 1.7 billion records and requires a daily feeding of around 9 million. It is split into 10, roughly equal, partitions. I...
2011-06-06
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Improved partition loading
We have a table that contains just over 1.7 billion records and requires a daily feeding of around 9 million....
2011-06-06
515 reads
Improved partition loading
We have a table that contains just over 1.7 billion records and requires a
daily feeding of around 9 million. It is split into 10, roughly equal,
partitions. I...
2011-06-06
13 reads
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
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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