My PASS Summit 2009 Schedule
Hooray! The PASS Summit is upon us (finally)! Here's what my plans look like for next week:
Monday
My week starts...
2009-10-29
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Blog Posts
Need an Aircard for a Few Days?
Ran across this, http://daypasswireless.com/, lets you rent an aircard plus service. Don’t know if it’s too late for those of...
2009-10-29
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OFF-TOPIC: More about the pregnancy
Quite a few folks have commented about my previous post about missing the PASS Summit, whether publicly or in private....
2009-10-29
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Special Events at the PASS Community Summit
If you’ve ever been to a PASS Community Summit, you know that each day is packed with a ton of...
2009-10-29
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SQL University: Multiple Paths and Ownership Chaining
Welcome back to our last class this term on security in SQL Server here at SQL University. According to the syllabus,...
2009-10-29
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Suggested Max Memory Settings for SQL Server 2005/2008
It is pretty important to make sure you set the Max Server memory setting for SQL Server 2005/2008 to something...
2009-10-29
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There was a rancher who had a DBA.... (Getting prepped for PASS)
and B-I-N-G-O was his game-o.
Maybe not that funny, but I think that SQL Bingo will be a fun time. If...
2009-10-29
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What Should PASS Strive To Be?
Steve Jones had a good editorial earlier this week entitled, What Do We Want from PASS?. It didn’t generate as...
2009-10-29
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Amazon.com Author Central Page
If you are a book author, Amazon.com now allows authors to promote their books with a new author’s page. The...
2009-10-28
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Crazy Egg
I know, I should have put more in the title. Crazy Egg is a web page traffic analysis tool that...
2009-10-28
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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...
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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