Social Leadership And The SQL Community
2010 is rapidly coming to a close and in retrospect this has been a fantastic year of growth for the...
2010-12-17
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Blog Posts
The Bar Where Everyone Queries Your Name?
Sent by a friend (yes, it’s a mild fake), but still, shouldn’t someone open a SQL bar or coffee place?
2010-12-17
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T-SQL Tuesday #13 Roundup
After my call for “What the Business Says Is Not What the Business Wants”, there were quite a few people...
2010-12-17
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Unusual BBQ
Recently some friends invited me to try a BBQ place that they enjoyed, so I went along hoping for the...
2010-12-17
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1.5 Years in, U.K. Information Commissioner Christopher Graham, Delivers on the Data Protection Act
A year after the Telegraph reported that Information Commissioner Graham would pledge a fierce approach to the stonewalling approach of...
2010-12-16
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Behold, SSIS Advanced Editor for Data Source Components
It's not everyday that one of your information vendors decides to change the format of its data feed. Evidently, today...
2010-12-16
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Behold, SSIS Advanced Editor for Data Source Components
It's not everyday that one of your information vendors decides to change the format of its data feed. Evidently, today is not every day. It would be one thing...
2010-12-16
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Behold, SSIS Advanced Editor for Data Source Components
It's not everyday that one of your information vendors decides to change
the format of its data feed. Evidently, today is not every day. It would
be one thing...
2010-12-16
15 reads
Denver SQL Server User Group Holiday Party
Tonight was the 2010 Denver SQL Server User group party. I typically haven’t done in the past to the holiday...
2010-12-16
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Giving Thanks
I often say I am where I am in the community because of other folks. As we approach the close...
2010-12-16
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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