What is #SQLFamily?
There’s a large group of people that mean a lot to me. Some of them I know well, and others...
2011-11-07
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Tim Mitchell
SQL PASS 2011 Keynote, Day 1
It’s that time of the year again – the SQL PASS summit 2011 is underway! Today I’m participating in the blogger...
2011-10-12
1,323 reads
Don’t Be This Guy
Note: This post was originally posted on October 29, 2009. In the interest of the upcoming conference season, I’m republishing...
2011-09-02
712 reads
Don’t Be This Guy
Note: This post was originally posted on October 29, 2009. In the interest of the upcoming conference season, I’m republishing...
2011-09-02
810 reads
SQL Saturday #90 OKC
This past Saturday, I made the relatively short (3 hour) drive north to Oklahoma City to participate in their first...
2011-08-29
828 reads
SQL Saturday #90 OKC
This past Saturday, I made the relatively short (3 hour) drive north to Oklahoma City to participate in their first...
2011-08-29
919 reads
T-SQL Tuesday (er, Wednesday): Crap Code
Ok, I have two admissions that I must bare to the world in this post. The first is that I’ve...
2011-08-10
702 reads
T-SQL Tuesday (er, Wednesday): Crap Code
Ok, I have two admissions that I must bare to the world in this post. The first is that I’ve...
2011-08-10
1,266 reads
Can You Endorse Me?
“Hey man, this is Ty*, what’s happening?” roared the familiar voice in my Bluetooth earpiece. It was a voice I...
2011-07-20
556 reads
Can You Endorse Me?
“Hey man, this is Ty*, what’s happening?” roared the familiar voice in my Bluetooth earpiece. It was a voice I...
2011-07-20
1,250 reads
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