Taking Quarantine Holiday
What will you do about vacation during the pandemic? Steve gives his thoughts.
2020-05-15
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Editorials
Remote Sharing and Learning
Steve notes we all need to learn to communicate and share information better, especially while we are remote.
2020-05-14
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Smarter Design
Many of us have used PowerPoint, which has grown smarter through the use of Machine Learning.
2020-05-13
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Defending Against Ransomware
Many more companies that you have heard about have been attacked by ransomware. Steve suggests you get prepared before this happens to you.
2020-05-12
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2020-05-11
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2020-05-09
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2020-05-08
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2020-05-07
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Remote Data Challenges
While working remotely, we still need good security practices and strong data protection.
2020-05-06
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2020-05-04
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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
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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