Professional Communications
This past week I had the opportunity to have lunch with a vendor at his clients’ site. As a part...
2010-01-10
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SQL RNNR
Goals For 2010
Like a lemming in the DBA community, I too am going to post my 2010 goals. I am looking to...
2010-01-08
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SSC Syndication
Steve Jones at SqlServerCentral.com has created a Blog for me over there at SqlServerCentral.com. I will be syndicated there and...
2010-01-07
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Primary Key Discovery
As a part of my DB documentation process for a large database, I needed a method to quickly show me...
2010-01-05
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Users Group Participation
I have been pondering over my local PASS chapter and participation. And more specifically about why I should participate, and...
2010-01-04
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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