Midlands PASS - April 5, 2007 Presentation posted
The presentation How to Be a Consultant has been posted to the Midlands PASS Chapter website. The presentation was given...
2007-04-15
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Blog Posts
Not 4GB
Windows doesn't see 4GB. If you have a 32bit OS with 4GB of RAM, Windows can't see it all.
I saw...
2007-04-13
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Post SP2 Fixes
I saw Brian's post on Microsoft's post on post sp2-fixes. Say that 10 times quickly.
They do a good job explaining...
2007-04-13
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New Tool: ApexSQL Audit Viewer
ApexSQL has announced a new viewer tool for ApexSQL Audit. ApexSQL Audit does a lot of the dirty work of...
2007-04-11
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The Final Word on SQL Server 2005 SP2?
Bob Ward posted on the PSS SQL Server Engineers blog a fairly long post on SP2 and the hotfixes thereafter:...
2007-04-11
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Thoughts from Never Eat Alone
Watching a Chefograpy on Giada De Laurentiis, I learned that she was considered very much an introvert and had a...
2007-04-10
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Help Johnny, Help Kids
I had heard of Johnny Long before I attended his briefing at Black Hat 2004. Well known for his research...
2007-04-09
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Microsoft CRM Security Internals
On the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Team Blog, Jay Grewal has posted information about the CRM Security Model Internals.
CRM is...
2007-04-09
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More information about SQL Server 2005 and SP2
SQL Server MVP Aaron Bertrand has posted an update (April 6, 2007) on the version numbers of post SP2 hotfixes....
2007-04-09
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How to pick a combination lock in 30 seconds
This is just frightening. A piece of a beer can, a pair of pliers, and the combo lock pops open.
...
2007-04-07
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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