Server Roles and Azure Active Directory in an Azure SQL Database
This video explains the built in server roles in an Azure SQL Server and demonstrates how to give a login...
2017-11-29
612 reads
Gethyn Ellis
SOS - Save Our Souls or SQL Operations Manager
On Wednesday Microsoft Announced the release in preview of SQL Operations Studio (SOS)... What is that I hear you cry!...
2017-11-17
620 reads
Creating a Linked Server to an Azure SQL Database
Why would you create a Linked Server to an Azure SQL Database?
If you work in a hybrid environment with some...
2017-11-15
1,346 reads
Configuring Azure Data Sync
In this video David demonstrates how to configure Azure Data Sync 2.0 to synchronise an Azure SQL database with an...
2017-11-10 (first published: 2017-11-01)
1,392 reads
Connecting to an Azure SQL Databases
Connecting to an Azure SQL Databases is pretty simple and straight forward,as long as you know what you need in...
2017-11-08
340 reads
Ebook: Putting Your Head in the Cloud: An Introduction to Cloud Computing and Azure SQL Database
David is delivering his Microsoft Azure for the SQL DBA talk this weekend in SQL Saturday Denmark. Go and see...
2017-10-05
496 reads
Kerberos Explained - Taming the Beast: Kerberos for the SQL Server DBA
David has a talk that he delivers at SQL Saturdays, all about Kerberos authentication. What it is, how it works...
2017-09-04
780 reads
New in SQL Server 2017: Graph Databases
David has recorded and published a video of his presentation on SQL Server Graph Database. In his video which you...
2017-08-31 (first published: 2017-08-21)
2,659 reads
SQL Server Express v SQL Server Developer Edition
SQL Server Express v SQL Server Developer Edition
Over the weekend I received the following in an email from Ali Ahmad...
2017-08-01
48,337 reads
Video Tutorial: Creating a SQL Server Databases
In this Video tutorial we will look at creating a SQL Server database using both Management Studio and TSQL. We’ll...
2017-07-31
576 reads
Blogs
RANK() vs DENSE_RANK(): #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I haven’t done one of these in awhile, but I saw an article recently...
Using CAT for Testing of Data Agents
In last months one of the scenarios where you can use AI has been...
Forums
Missing the Jaro Winkler Distance
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Missing the Jaro Winkler Distance
25 Years Later: What SQLServerCentral Meant to Me
Comments posted to this topic are about the item 25 Years Later: What SQLServerCentral...
Doing Good at SQL Server Central
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Doing Good at SQL Server...
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