Helpful Advice?
This editorial was originally published on Feb 5, 2007 and is being re-run as Steve is on vacation. Is this the advice you'd give, or take, in a DR situation? Steve thinks it's not.
2011-11-21
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Editorials
RC0
This week saw the release of RC2 of SQL Server 2012 and marks an important milestone towards the next release of SQL Server.
2011-11-21
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What's Your Title?
A career based poll this Friday has Steve Jones asking what your title is, or maybe what you think it should be given the work that you do.
2011-11-18
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More SQL Injection
Why are sites still being hit by SQL Injection on a large scale? Steve Jones talks about a recent large scale attack that affected over a million sites.
2011-11-17
592 reads
Do You Want to be a DBA in Space?
With the DBA in Space contest ending this week, Steve Jones has some thoughts on the contest, and what he'd do if he were to win.
2011-11-16
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Network Databases? Is it time to change?
Today Steve responds to a blog post from Microsoft that talks about the viability of placing our database files on network shares.
2011-11-15
161 reads
Don't Criticize Code
For anyone eager for a long-term career in IT Development, humility and tact are probably more important habits to acquire than demon coding-skills. Phil Factor explains why.
2011-11-14
317 reads
The Industry Problem
We have less people studying technical subjects and an apparent shortage of technical talent in the IT field. Steve Jones thinks we might have an industry wide problem.
2011-11-14
228 reads
First Impressions
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren that examines the first impressions that you create when you meet someone.
2011-11-11
126 reads
License By Core
Microsoft recently announced changes in the licensing for SQL Server 2012 and Steve Jones has a few thoughts on the topic.
2011-11-09
296 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
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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