Troubleshooting
New author Mike Walsh brings us an interesting analogy on troubleshooting skills that might get you to think differently about how you attack problems.
2009-04-02
6,282 reads
Articles
Automatic Full Parallel Processing of Hierarchical SQL Queries
Although adding multiprocessing capabilities to applications is labor-intensive and error-prone, adding multicore capability to SQL query processing can be automatic, benefiting huge numbers of applications with little developer effort.
2009-04-02
2,311 reads
Service Broker Poison Message Handling
Recent installments of our series dedicated to SQL Server 2005 Express Edition have focused on error handling techniques that leverage Service Broker's transactional nature. This article describes Poison Message detection characteristics and presents an example demonstrating its use.
2009-04-02
1,585 reads
The T-SQL Paradigm
This Friday, Steve Jones looks for opinions on what you think of the T-SQL language. Is it well structured or does it really need help?
2009-04-02
560 reads
The T-SQL Paradigm
This Friday, Steve Jones looks for opinions on what you think of the T-SQL language. Is it well structured or does it really need help?
2009-04-02
875 reads
The T-SQL Paradigm
This Friday, Steve Jones looks for opinions on what you think of the T-SQL language. Is it well structured or does it really need help?
2009-04-02
566 reads
2009-04-01
5,204 reads
SQLServerCentral To Take Over PASS
After intense negotiations with CA and Microsoft, the founding sponsors of PASS, SQLServerCentral has agreed to take over the organization.
2009-04-01
2,042 reads
Buying A Plane
There's been a lot of bad press about 'corporate jets' in the news over the past year. Not that planes themselves have issues, but rather many questions about whether corporations are spending shareholder dollars appropriately. It's not a simple topic, but clearly there did seem to be a lack of awareness about how those kinds of things would be perceived in difficult financial times.
2009-04-01
919 reads
Moving to MySQL
It’s time. After years of building this site to work with SQL Server, I sold it to Red Gate Software. Part of that transaction meant that I had to work for Red Gate for a period of time afterwards. I think I’ve done a good job in that time, but I don’t own this site anymore, and can’t compete with it contractually.
2009-04-01
4,061 reads
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Missing the Jaro Winkler Distance
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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