TGI SQL Friday - 16th September 2016 Weekly roundup
I have had an interesting week teaching Learning Tree course 534 Developing SQL Queries for SQL Server. I had an...
2016-09-16
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Gethyn Ellis
Great Value IT Training - Awesome ITIL offers
This week's Great Value IT Offers are in. If you want to your ITIL learning on this autumn we have...
2016-09-15
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Top 5 Books for Database Developers
My Top 5 series of books has proved very popular. The first post titled Top 5 books for Enterprise Architecture was the...
2016-09-13
1,779 reads
Never miss a Great Value IT Training Deal Again
As regular readers of the blog will be aware, over the summer of 2016 here at gethynellis.com we have teamed...
2016-09-12
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Top 5 SQL Server Books for the DBA
The Top 5 series has proved rather popular. My Top 5 books for Enterprise Architecture was the most popular post in...
2016-09-12 (first published: 2016-09-07)
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TGI SQL Friday - Weekly Roundup 9th September 2016
Welcome to the TGI SQL Friday for the 9th September 2016. Here you will find the links of the posts...
2016-09-09
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Are you going to SQL Saturday Denmark? #SQLSaturdayDenmark
Are you going to SQL Saturday Denmark, which is running on Saturday 17th September? If you are David Postlethwaite or @postledm...
2016-09-08
430 reads
Great Value IT Training 8th September
As some of you know, here at gethynellis.com we have partnered with Learning Tree to offer you a range of courses...
2016-09-08
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TGI SQL Friday - Weekly Roundup 2nd September 2016
Weekly Summary
Last week I was holiday in Cyprus. The weather was plus 30 degrees celsius all week. The pool was...
2016-09-02
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TGI SQL Friday – Weekly round up 26th August 2016
The SQL Server news this week is there is no news!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/newswatch/history/noflash/html/1930s.stm
No this is not the 1930’s BBC.
There are no...
2016-08-26
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Presenting with Visual Studio Code
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
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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