The struggle to renormalize data
You are given an export of a NoSQL database, in JSON, and asked to import it into a relational database. Sounds easy? It isn't and Phil Factor explain why.
2017-09-11
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Editorials
The Control Poll
Do you use version control for your databases? For your application code? Is there a time when you think it's not needed? Steve Jones asks the question today.
2017-09-08 (first published: 2013-05-17)
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Using Tools that Fit
Equipment can matter for IT professionals. Read a few thoughts from Andy Warren.
2017-09-07
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2017-09-06
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2017-09-05
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SQL Server in Space - HASSP
A successful launch, and recovery, of SQL Server running below a balloon.
2017-09-04
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2017-09-04
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Improving Log Shipping
Today Steve Jones looks at possible ways to improve log shipping and asks for your input as well.
2017-09-01
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Appreciating New Perspectives
Today Steve Jones talks about understanding and having empathy for other points of view.
2017-08-31
77 reads
Database Development Made Easy?
Today Steve Jones has a few thoughts on the complexity and cumbersome nature of database development.
2017-08-30
105 reads
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
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is it true we cant debug c# scripts in ssis anymore under vs
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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