Merry Xmas
I'm enjoying today with family and hope you are as well. Nothing complicated today, just some appropriate music!
Bruce Springsteen - Santa...
2008-12-24
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Blog Posts
Blackberry Bold
It was only a year ago that I moved from the Blackjack to the Blackberry Curve and overall I was...
2008-12-23
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Check Out the Free Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL) Tool
Traditionally, analyzing Performance Monitor data has not been an easy task. It often involved viewing Performance Monitor logs in graph...
2008-12-23
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Do No Evil
One of Google's tenets is to "do no evil" as they run their corporation. This article questions their motives as...
2008-12-23
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Looking for a DBA Diversion?
If you haven't done so, check out this Simple-Talk Editorial by Tony Davis, in addition to all the comments the...
2008-12-23
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Hiring Your First Employee
Visit Business of Software
It’s my boss, or rather the owner of the company I work for (yes I work for...
2008-12-22
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Office Ribbon - Find The Command/Out of Office?
I guess I'm stuck in the past, but the Office Ribbon still hasn't grown on me. I think it makes...
2008-12-22
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Call It a Day, or a Day Minus 2 Milliseconds
There's one report that I look at every day to assess how things are going on a project we launched...
2008-12-21
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Sp_altermessage “Classic”, much better than “New” sp_altermessage
I was reading through the SQL Server 2005 SP3 release notes yesterday (sadly, it was enjoyable) and clicked through to...
2008-12-19
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Version Restores
I saw a question today on restoring a SQL Server 7 backup to SQL Server 2005, and I wasn't sure...
2008-12-19
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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...
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