Two Speaking Engagements Coming Up: Next Monday in Burlington, Vermont & SQL Saturday #43 June 12th
Next Monday, I shall be driving the Smart down to Burlington, VT, again to visit Roman Rehak's Vermont SQL Server...
2010-05-17
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Blog Posts
Introduction to Memory configuration
Introduction to Memory configuration Yesterday I was discussion with one of my friend on memory management and internals to expertise in...
2010-05-16
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SQL Server Reporting Services R2 - Publishing Report Parts
SQL Server Reporting Services R2 – Publishing Report Parts
SQL Server Reporting Services R2 (SSRS) allows report developers to not only publish...
2010-05-16
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Study Tips for the SQL MCM Exams
Study Tips for the SQL MCM Exams
I met the new rotation of the SQL Server Certified Master program on Friday....
2010-05-16
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Is Microsoft “years behind” in cloud apps?
Microsoft is associated almost exclusively with Windows and Office. Unfortunately a lot more innovation areas are not well known… Is Microsoft losing the cloud apps? Let me share with...
2010-05-15
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Is Microsoft “years behind” in cloud apps?
Microsoft is associated almost exclusively with Windows and Office. Unfortunately a lot more...
2010-05-15
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Mea Culpa: TweetRandomizer-gate
If you’ve ever read Spider-Man or spent any sort of time around the Marvel Universe (movies included) you’ll have no...
2010-05-15
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SQL Agent Visual Job Schedule Viewer
If you have experience with the SQL Server Agent you quickly realize the difficulty in managing job schedules. On a...
2010-05-15
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Daily SQL Server 2008 New Feature – Day 7
Every day for the next couple of weeks, I aim to highlight one of SQL Server 2008’s new features, simply...
2010-05-14
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Interviewed by Professional Development Virtual Chapter
Kathi Kellenburger, fellow MVP and friend, pinged me recently for an interview for the Professional Development Virtual Chapter. This is...
2010-05-14
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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
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is it true we cant debug c# scripts in ssis anymore under vs
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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