TGI SQL Friday - Weekly Roundup Friday 19th August 2016
Its been a lovely week here in the UK as we approach the end of August. Sun has been out,...
2016-08-19
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Gethyn Ellis
Great Value IT Training from @LearningTree #SQLServer - 17th August 2016
This weeks great value IT training deals are in. This being SQL Server blog I would like to draw your...
2016-08-17
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David @postledm is at #SQLSaturday
It is that time of year when the Scandinavia holds its SQL Saturday events and once gain I have been...
2016-08-16
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What is Enterprise Architecture?
This is an interesting question. Lets look at couple of definitions starting with Wikipedia’s definition
“Enterprise architecture (EA) is "a well-defined...
2016-08-15
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TGI SQL Friday – Weekly round up Friday 12 August 2016
This week has seen the launch of my new SQL Server newsletter in conjunction with Learning Tree. If you would...
2016-08-12
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SQL Server Newsletter @LearningTree
As many of you know I have been delivering Learning Tree training courses since way back in 2010. Combing training...
2016-08-10
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Great Value IT Training 9th August – Automate with PowerShell
It’s that time of the week when the Great Value IT training page gets its weekly update and this week...
2016-08-09
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Top 5 books on Enterprise Architecture
My post the top 3 books for becoming TOGAF certified punlished last week looked at books on preparing for the...
2016-08-08
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Great Value IT Training early August Update
Its that time of the week when get the latest Learning Tree courses that have been available for £750 plus...
2016-08-03
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Top 3 books for Becoming TOGAF Certified
I often get asked what books are useful for preparing for the TOGAF certification exam. The resources are generally from...
2016-08-01
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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
By Steve Jones
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