SQLRally Meeting Minutes
The starting point for a good meeting is an agenda and minutes. It took us a bit to catch up,...
2010-09-09
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Blog Posts
The Perfect SQL Server DBA / Developer Role
Whilst enjoying my coffee fix this morning, along with today’s SQL Server Central Email, my attention was caught by Steve...
2010-09-09
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T-SQL - Is Saving Space Worth It?
I ran across this blog post on Joe Celko’s Restaurant Seat Assignment Problem that found a way to implement the...
2010-09-09
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Voting Theory
I was enjoyed the Sunday newspaper (on Sunday!) and ran across this column about various voting systems and that made...
2010-09-09
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A week far away...24 HOP!
I just have an email with notice that 24 Hours Of PASS, is a week far away! Once again great...
2010-09-08
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Common SQL Server Mistakes – GUID as a Clustered PK
I haven’t been thrilled with GUIDs as primary keys, mainly because I think that it’s hard for humans to work...
2010-09-08
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Interview with SQL Server MVP Allen White
This is the third and last in a series of interviews with speakers presenting at the SQLServerCentral.com track at SQL...
2010-09-08
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MDX - Calculating the Percent of a Named Set
Getting the percent of something in MDX seems like a pretty easy task but can be complicated when extra logic...
2010-09-08
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New Ideas for SQLSaturday
Jack Corbett and I are trying a few new things at SQLSaturday #49 in Orlando this year (Oct 16, 2010)...
2010-09-08
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Schedule the backup job in Express Edition
Schedule the backup job in Express Edition: Everyone knows that, you cannot schedule a job in Express edition, as Express...
2010-09-08
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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