On the importance of a complete break
If you’re the type who habitually checks work email and thinks about work while on holiday, here’s Gail Shaw's challenge for next time: don’t.
Using the Script Task in SSIS to Process Data Files When They Arrive
Learn how you can process data files with SSIS as soon as they arrive using the Script Task.
More Text Analysis with the SSIS Term Lookup Component
As mentioned before, we will use the same use case in this tip as used with the Term Extraction component, which is an archive of all my tweets I've downloaded from Twitter. Using this archive and the Term Extraction transformation I found out which topics I particularly tweeted about in the past years or which persons I mentioned the most.
Data Mining Introduction Part 2
This is a continuation of first article about Data Mining. We will talk about decision trees.
Data Mining Introduction Part 2
This is a continuation of first article about Data Mining. We will talk about decision trees.
Hooks
Building hooks from your software into enterprise monitoring systems is prudent, and might save you from a few late night phone calls.
A TDD Journey: 2 - Naming Tests; Mocking Frameworks; Dependency Injection
Test-Driven Development (TDD) relies on the repetition of a very short development cycle starting from an initially failing automated test that defines the functionality that is required, and then producing the minimum amount of code to pass that test, and finally refactoring the new code.
Free SQL in the City Seminar Cambridge, MA – Oct 8, 2014
SQL Server MVP Grant Fritchey and Steve Jones will present the Stairway to Continuous Delivery in Cambridge this October in place of the NESSUG meet-up. Learn how to build an efficient development and deployment process for your organization. Register for this free event.
Data Mining: Part 15 Processing Data Mining components with SSIS
In this lesson, we will show different components to Administer the Data Mining Models with SSIS.
Data Mining: Part 15 Processing Data Mining components with SSIS
In this lesson, we will show different components to Administer the Data Mining Models with SSIS.
Blogs
The Book of Redgate: SQL Server Central
By Steve Jones
It was neat to stumble on this in the book, a piece by me,...
Git forked
Forgive me for the title. Mentally I’m 12. When I started my current day...
Setting FK Constraints in Data Modeler
By Steve Jones
One of the things a customer asked recently about Redgate Data Modeler was how...
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Downtime Caused by the Postgres Transaction ID Wraparound Problem
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The String Distance I
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Question of the Day
The String Distance I
In SQL Server 2025, what is returned by this code:
SELECT EDIT_DISTANCE('Steve', 'Stan')
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