We Are Microsoft Charity Event 2009
I received notification a few days ago that I was selected again to participate in the We Are Microsoft charity...
2009-01-06
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Blog Posts
Big Brown: The Untold Story of UPS
Steve Jones recommended this one to me. It starts at the very beginnings of UPS and goes through pretty much...
2009-01-05
401 reads
Investing In Yourself
I've always been in favor of investing in things that I think will benefit me long term, but all investments...
2009-01-05
1,576 reads
Kindle Review – Back To Paper
I’ve had my Kindle now for about 3 1/2 months and I have to say that I really like it....
2009-01-05
1,050 reads
Orlando DotNetNuke User Group Meeting on Jan 6, 2009
My friend Will Strohl leads this group and asked for help getting the word out. I'm planning to attend.
URL:http://orlando.dotnetnukeug.net/WhatsNew/Events/tabid/91/ctl/Details/Mid/428/ItemID/16/Default.aspx?selecteddate=1/6/2009
Speaker: Stan...
2009-01-05
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SSIS – CHECKSUM Transformation
CHECKSUM is a TSQL function that computes a hash value over a list of arguments. The great thing about creating...
2009-01-05
20,732 reads
The Story of The Aquarium Stand
Last year we acquired a small aquarium for my daughter, and then upgraded to a whopping 10 gallon tank. Turned...
2009-01-05
4,019 reads
DBA Mission and Vision Statement
There is a saying that "The important is often not
urgent and the urgent not important". I could not agree more...
2009-01-03
18,323 reads
SQL 2008 Row and Page compression – or SQL 2005 (post SP2) vardecimal conversion
One of the great new features in SQL 2008 is Row and/or Page Compression. Plus, still good news for those...
2009-01-02
1,766 reads
How Certification Can Help You Stay Current with Technology, as well as Continuing Your Education
If you'd like to keep up with your profession as a SQL DBA, I thoroughly recommend certification. It has certainly...
2009-01-01
1,987 reads
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