Kindle - Value on the Road
I still need to jot some thoughts about using the Kindle, but a quick note from traveling.
I downloaded 3 or...
2008-09-03
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Blog Posts
Performance Tuning Tips From the Consultant Perspective
I do very little consulting these days, perhaps 4-5 weeks per year, and that only to make sure I maintain...
2008-09-03
295 reads
Creating Databases Posted on SQLServerCentral.com
Creating Databases was actually posted last week, but got distracted with some other stuff. A basis walk through of creating...
2008-09-02
398 reads
Speakers/Presenters, Can You Answer ALL The Questions?
When I teach my introductory (and free) Successful Technical Speaking class to try to help beginners enter the world of speaking,...
2008-09-01
407 reads
Labor Day
It's Labor Day here in the US today, a holiday that is tribute to those of us that work, the journey to...
2008-08-31
1,773 reads
Kindle - First Thoughts
I got my Kindle yesterday and I'll write some more notes as I go along, but I have to say...
2008-08-30
1,464 reads
Defining Value
I've been thinking a lot lately about the concept of value. Earlier this week a colleague of mine tendered his...
2008-08-29
1,458 reads
Insufficient Space for a Side by Side Restore - What Do You Do?
I was recently working with a student in a one on one format and one the scenarios he wanted to...
2008-08-28
1,424 reads
Kindle - About Face
OK, I reversed myself and bought a Kindle today. Or I guess I ordered one and it should be here...
2008-08-28
1,768 reads
Reminder: Upcoming SQL Launch Event in Jacksonville, FL on Sep 12, 2008
The Jacksonville SQL Server Users Group (www.jssug.com) is hosting a SQL 2008 launch event on Friday, Sep 12, 2008 in downtown...
2008-08-27
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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