The Flash DBA
Does it make sense for a DBA to be a job that moves from project to project? Steve Jones has some thoughts.
2017-09-25
91 reads
Editorial
A SQL Server Bug and Data Security
A bug in SQL Server needs patching right away if you use TDE. Some data security issues concern Steve as well.
2017-09-25
47 reads
Help from Cortana
Lots of work is going into making software more helpful. This week Steve Jones wonders what you want from these assistants.
2017-09-22
66 reads
The Avalanche of Cloud Computing
Today Steve Jones talks about the tipping point of cloud computing.
2017-09-21
60 reads
Interviews: What is ACID?
While thinking about interviews, Steve Jones shares a story of a job situation he encountered.
2017-09-20
132 reads
2017-09-19
68 reads
Avoiding the Hell of having to Remember DDL syntax
What's your favorite productivity tool when writing SQL? Phil Factor has has flirted with most of them, from templates and snippets to a programmer's clipboard and back again.
2017-09-18
120 reads
2017-09-18
72 reads
Voting for Change
Microsoft changed some things in SQL Server 2017 in response to community requests. Steve Jones is asking for more.
2017-09-15
55 reads
2017-09-14
100 reads
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