2020-07-24
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Editorials
2020-07-23
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Hacking the Admin
A Twitter hack brings into the question of who can make changes in production for Steve.
2020-07-22
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2020-07-21
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A Dedicated Space
Today Steve looks at one possible future of offices, which might be something we own.
2020-07-20
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Digging Into Internals
There are plenty of experts that look to teach you about query tuning and the internals of query execution in SQL Server.
2020-07-18
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Your Data After Life
Today Steve thinks about what to do when planning for your digital assets after you pass.
2020-07-17
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Carefully Giving Normal Users Security Permissions
When we need to delegate work to less privileged users, Steve has an idea.
2020-07-16
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2020-07-15
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2020-07-14
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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
Safe and Reliable Transport of Farm Machinery: Solutions of the Modern Agricultu
Ship A1 Auto Transport is a reliable provider of services who delivers safe and...
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