2019-01-21
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Editorials
Versatile or Jack of all trades
Do you consider multi-skills useful; or just one with mastery in it?
2019-01-21
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2019-01-17
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2019-01-16
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Measuring Effectiveness
Being effective is important to Steve. Today he talks about the things you might consider when trying to determine if your group is being effective.
2019-01-15
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Where's that Snippet?
Phil Factor has tried many different ways to remember code and archive old code for reuse, but has yet to find the perfect solution. Does it exist?
2019-01-14
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Do you have a security to-do list?
Security is important, and Steve wonders if any of us have a list of things we do that improve security.
2019-01-11
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2019-01-10
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Is Failure Allowed?
Failure is one of the ways we get better as software developers. Does that apply to DBAs?
2019-01-09
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MY Data
As we gather more and more data about individuals, not only does security become an issue, but also the morality of using the data.
2019-01-08 (first published: 2014-11-18)
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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