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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Blog Posts
May 2010 S3OLV Meeting Recap
On the evening of May 13th, S3OLV held its monthly meeting. We had some really good discussion, and got to...
2010-05-14
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Microsoft Certified Architect - Infrastructure and Solutions Are No More
A friend of mine had been out to the Microsoft Certified Architect site recently and noted that the Infrastructure and...
2010-05-14
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SQL Azure and T-SQL
SQL Server Azure database supports the T-SQL, but no at all! For the SQL Server Azure and T-SQL are available...
2010-05-14
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SSIS R2 Configuration File Issue Fixed
Using configurations files in SSIS is a great way to change how your package will run from outside the development...
2010-05-14
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Thoughts on Leadership
A friend is moving into a leadership role for the first time and we talked some about making that transition....
2010-05-14
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Tips from ...Rock Star DBA
Thomas LaRock (SQL Server MVP) (Blog | Twitter | LinkedIN), recently has published the new book DBA Survivor: Become a Rock Start...
2010-05-14
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Career Advice for the Novice SQL Server DBA
In April, I ran a Question of the Month that asked, “What advice would you offer a novice DBA in...
2010-05-13
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Daily SQL Server 2008 New Feature – Day 6
Every day for the next couple of weeks, I aim to highlight one of SQL Server 2008’s new features, simply...
2010-05-13
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Formatting Code in LiveWriter
I was getting tired of pre-formatting code in LiveWriter. I love that software, but a couple of the technical things...
2010-05-13
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Blogs
A bespoke reporting solution doesn’t have to cost the earth
By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
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...
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