Excellent Blog List
For the one or two you that are not reading Buck Woody’s blog (and why aren’t you), you may not...
2009-08-12
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Blog Posts
Getting Security Vulnerability Information
Staying abreast of security vulnerability alerts can be a daunting task because there are so many each day. One source...
2009-08-12
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LinkedIn For Business
Ran across this recently, 33 Ways to Use LinkedIn for Business and thought I’d post it since I’ve talked about...
2009-08-12
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LIVE MEETING REMINDER - Baton Rouge SQL Server User Group
Reminder: The Baton Rouge Area SQL Server User Group will be broadcasting its user group via live meeting. If you...
2009-08-12
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No Training Budget Still No Excuse
When I first started by career in IT and SQL Server about 10 years ago I lived in a small...
2009-08-12
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PASS Connector Editorial for August 12, 2009
I currently write the editorial for the PASS Connector which is published every two weeks as part of my role...
2009-08-12
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So many topics, so many blogs.......What says you?
So, what should I talk about next? There's so much going on in the world of SQL Server (ie: 2008,...
2009-08-12
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SQL Quiz 5: SANs Mirroring
My turn to answer Chris Shaw’s questions “Do I feel I have a reliable SAN solution?” and “Describe Database Mirroring...
2009-08-12
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SQL Saturday Baton Rouge – Session Evaluations
I received my evaluation summary from the SQL Saturday event in Baton Rouge earlier this month. This was the first...
2009-08-12
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SQLSaturday Advisory Council
Cross posted on the SQLSaturday blog as well.
We started SQLSaturday back in May 2007 because we wanted a SQL event...
2009-08-12
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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