The Wise Old Man Part 3
In my previous posts The Wise Old Man Part 1 and The Wise Old Man Part 2 I wrote about...
2008-11-03
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Blog Posts
DBA and Doctor
I always feel it is harder to be a DBA than to be a doctor while we are doing almost...
2008-11-02
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How Many People Can a Manager Manage?
This question came up during lunch this past week, and it's a good question. I'll start with my stock 'It...
2008-11-02
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Timing is Everything
I got up this morning, wanting to go through the forums, check on Database Weekly, etc. as a Sunday morning...
2008-11-02
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Auditing for Blank Passwords
Auditing blank passwords in SQL Server 2005 and 2008 proves a bit more challenging than in SQL Server 2000. In...
2008-11-01
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SQL Server 2008 Data Compression Example
I was experimenting with the effects of row and page compression in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition.
First, I identified...
2008-10-31
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Follow Up to Blog Review Post
A month or so ago I posted Blog Review - Yours & Mine to see what I might get for feedback about...
2008-10-30
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New Books on SQL Server 2008
Since the release of SQL Server 2008, a slew of new books have been released, or are about to be...
2008-10-30
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The October 2008 Energy Update - So Much Passion
Do we have an energy crisis or not? Is global warming real? Are we being affected by burning fossil fuels?
I...
2008-10-30
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The Wise Old Man Part 2
In my previous post The Wise Old Man Part 1 I wrote about a great session I attended during SQL...
2008-10-30
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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