Virtualization for Security
This editorial was originally published on Nov 7, 2006. It is being re-run as Steve is at SQL in the City today. Today Steve talks about security using virtualization.
2011-10-27
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Editorials
The Good Job
Today Steve Jones talks about jobs, and how life is too short to stick with a crappy job.
2011-10-26
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The HR Scorecard
If you are looking to gain some BI experience or tackle a project that might help your company, Steve Jones suggests you consider doing something for HR.
2011-10-25
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Don’t Economize on Processors for Database Servers
In this guest editorial, Glenn Berry argues that, when designing your servers, you need to budget for processing power as your primary concern.
2011-10-24
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The Cost of Architecture
What's the cost of those architectural decisions that you make? It can be substantial if they aren't good ones, but is that a problem? Steve Jones talks a little about the implications
2011-10-24
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Which Versions of SQL Server Do You Have?
This week Steve Jones asks about the versions of SQL Server that you have to support in your daily job. Answer this week's poll and let us know the width and breadth of support that you are responsible for maintaining.
2011-10-21
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Not Only SQL
Steve Jones talks NoSQL today, which should stand for Not Only SQL, according to Dr David DeWitt. The final keynote last week discussed SQL alternatives and their impact on our data world.
2011-10-20
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Protecting Data
How hard is it to anonymize data? According to some research, it might be close to impossible. The problem is that we are gathering so much data that cross referencing data sets becomes a problem. Steve Jones talks today about the implications of this for security.
2011-10-19
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Give us all the features
The mix of hardware and feature limits in SQL Server varies by edition. Steve Jones thinks it should be simplified to only matter for hardware and scale, not features.
2011-10-18
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2011-10-17
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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
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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...
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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