SQL Saturday 56 Dallas (BI Edition) - Recap
This past Saturday, our NTSSUG group hosted SQL Saturday 56, which was our second SQL Saturday of the year. This...
2010-10-26
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Tim Mitchell
PASS Summit, Birds of a Feather Lunch, and Ask the Experts
The PASS Summit is just around the corner, less than a month away. Although I’m not presenting a session at...
2010-10-19
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SQL Saturday 52 Recap
I spent this past weekend traveling to and attending SQL Saturday Colorado in the outskirts of Denver. This was the...
2010-09-30
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Broken or Just Bent? #passvotes
Though things have died down a bit since the initial backlash, the recent development in the PASS board election process...
2010-09-14
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SSIS: Conditional File Processing in a ForEach Loop
I’ve fielded a number of requests recently asking how to interrogate a file within SSIS and change the processing rules...
2010-08-23
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SQL Saturday 28 Baton Rouge - Recap
Last weekend I went to Baton Rouge (by way of New Orleans) to attend and speak at the second annual...
2010-08-21
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It’s the Process
Unless you’ve spent the last two days hiding under a rock, you’ve heard the uproar around this week’s development in...
2010-08-19
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Dallas-area NTSSUG Happenings
First, apologies to those of you outside the Dallas-Ft. Worth metro area… I’ve backed off from using my blog as...
2010-08-17
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SQL Saturday 28 Baton Rouge and Ask the Experts
The second annual SQL Saturday Baton Rouge event is coming up in less than two weeks! Have you registered?
I’m honored...
2010-08-02
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What Are You Afraid to Ask?
There are some questions that can’t necessarily be answered in a book or a training video. Those are often the...
2010-08-02
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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...
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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