Migrating A SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services Named Instance, The Missing Manual
Microsoft has always been pretty good at one thing, ease on install.
One of the things I always says is...
2009-06-22
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Blog Posts
Tips on Getting Hired – Part 4
Getting a job is hard. If you’ve been lucky enough not to struggle for a job, don’t make the mistake...
2009-06-22
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Tips on Getting Hired – Part 5
I think the hardest part about the job search is interviewing and not being selected. You keep saying “why” with...
2009-06-22
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When the next object-persistence boat comes in.
I was reading a MCP training manual for SQL Server the other day. It was good. The whole of TSQL...
2009-06-22
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Adventures in Powershell SSIS Administration Programming
In January 2009, I released version 1.4 of SQL Server Powershell Extensions which included a Library of functions for working with...
2009-06-19
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Best Thing I Learned at PASS Summit
If you haven't heard, PASS is running a contest where you could win conference registration to this year's PASS Community...
2009-06-19
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Moron's Guide to SSIS : Episode 2 - Introduction to the Dataflow
Today Pragmatic Works release it’s second comedic training video featuring Dustin Ryan as “Dustin” and Brian Knight as “Gary” Dustin’s...
2009-06-19
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The Lowest Bar
In my Modern Resume presentation, I tried to structure it to go from easy to hard things to do in...
2009-06-19
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Enabling Checkpoints in your SSIS Packages
Checkpoints are a great tool in SSIS that many developers go years without even experimenting with. I hope to enlighten...
2009-06-18
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Learning a New Development Platform
This past week at work we have been having some in-depth training. The interesting thing is it hasn't been SQL...
2009-06-18
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Blogs
RANK() vs DENSE_RANK(): #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I haven’t done one of these in awhile, but I saw an article recently...
Using CAT for Testing of Data Agents
In last months one of the scenarios where you can use AI has been...
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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