Identities and Transactions
I talked a little recently in a blog about gaps in identity values. They can occur when you delete rows,...
2010-02-01
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Blog Posts
More Nukes
One of the reasons that I did not vote for President Obama was his stance on our energy issues, specifically...
2010-02-01
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Orlando Code Camp 2010 Announced
The fifth annual Orlando Code Camp will be held March 27, 2010, at the Lake Mary Campus of Seminole State...
2010-02-01
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Sending SSIS Errors to the Windows Event Log
In a previous post I explained how to trap for errors in your Script Task and Components and send the information to the SSIS...
2010-02-01
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Some BI Related Official Microsoft Related SQL Server Blogs
My other Microsoft blog list was more focused on relational database administration and development, so here is my list of...
2010-02-01
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Some BI Related Official Microsoft SQL Server Blogs
My other Microsoft blog list was more focused on relational database administration and development, so here is my list of...
2010-02-01
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Some Selected Official Microsoft SQL Server Blogs
Here is a list of a some of the official Microsoft SQL Server blogs that I have stumbled across. Some...
2010-02-01
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SQL Saturday #34 Wrap-up
Whew!
It’s over. New England Data Camp v2, aka, SQL Saturday #34, was completed on Saturday. Going in we had maxed...
2010-02-01
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Stored Procedure to Sequentially Run SQL Agent Jobs
Introduction
Here is another one of my utility scripts. Lately it seems like all I am blogging about is utility scripts,...
2010-02-01
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Teaching Two SQL Server 2008 Classes at University of Denver, University College in Spring Quarter
I’ll be teaching two SQL Server 2008 classes this spring at University of Denver, University College. The first one, which...
2010-02-01
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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