SQL Server 2005 and 2008 provide native XML data type and provides extensive support for XML data processing. The easy conversion from XML to a relational table provides a way for set-based updates based on user input.
2009-10-01
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In a previous tip on SQL Script Generation Programmatically with SMO, you've seen how you can use SMO to generate SQL scripts programmatically. In this tip I will cover how to generate scripts using Windows PowerShell.
2009-10-01
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I was in a presentation last week where the presenter was talking about the ANSI/ISO SQL standards. For the most part the...
2009-10-01
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A new challenge is up. See if you are up for the task of identifying the longest sequence of characters in a string before Oct 12
2009-10-01
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What are COPY_ONLY backups and why do we care? New author Charles Kincaid walks us through the basics of how you can create one of these backups.
2009-09-30
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Given that companies spend on average between 7 and 12 percent of their annual budgets on energy – a focus on reducing energy consumption can have significant bottom-line impact
2009-09-30
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Steve Jones is a part of Generation X, who surprisingly seems to be more Web 2.0 oriented than Generation Y.
2009-09-30
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Steve Jones is a part of Generation X, who surprisingly seems to be more Web 2.0 oriented than Generation Y.
2009-09-30
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Steve Jones is a part of Generation X, who surprisingly seems to be more Web 2.0 oriented than Generation Y.
2009-09-30
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Change Data Capture (CDC) is a new native feature in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition. This article shows how to use CDC to easily set up data auditing on your SQL Server system
2009-09-30
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A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
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In 100 years a lot of what we take to be true now will...
Hi, i'm running vs2022. I'm trying out a c# script that i'd like to...
Comments posted to this topic are about the item 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