HealthySQL 2.0 for SQLSaturday#268
Over the last year, I was presenting and touring the SQL Saturday circuit with my HealthySQL 2.0 presentation. HealthySQL is...
2014-02-24
1,189 reads
Robert Pearl
T-SQL Tuesday#51 - Place Your Bets - In-Place Upgrade.
I’m not much of a
betting man, but if I had to bet that I would participate in this month’s T-SQL
Tuesday...
2014-02-11
2,008 reads
NJSQL User Group Presents In-Memory OLTP for SQL Server
If your local to the NY/NJ area, please see tomorrow night's agenda for SQL Server 2014 In-Memory OLTP feature! Microsoft...
2014-01-20
1,009 reads
REBLOG: Twas the Week After Christmas.....
Holiday Greetings to all you DBA's and SQL Server professionals! This blog goes out to all of you who are on-call...
2013-12-24
945 reads
HealthySQL at SQLSaturday #233 - Down in DC - wrap-up.
December 7,
2013 – A day that shall live in infamy….. Ok, not that famous December 7 – in 1941,
when the attack on...
2013-12-10
1,018 reads
T-SQL Tuesday#49 - Wait for it...Waits & Queues
As
I was waiting for the next TSQL
Tuesday topic to be announced, we all know that when SQL Server performance is
slow,...
2013-12-10
1,601 reads
Happy Halloween! A TALE OF THE SCARY DBA! - Reblog
Today, October 31, 2013 is Halloween, and in the spirit of the holiday of ghosts, goblins, vampires, werewolves, witches and...
2013-10-31
1,981 reads
PASS Summit 2013 - Highlight Q&A from the Experts - What are you currently working on?
Day 3 at PASS Summit 2013, and the conference wraps up today strong with BOF (Birds of a Feather) lunch,...
2013-10-18
1,201 reads
PASS Summit 2013 - Highlight Q&A from the Experts - What are your favorite features?
PASS Summit Continues….
If you have been following my blog, in the myriad of PASS Summit 2013 related blogs, you’ve been...
2013-10-17
995 reads
PASS Summit 2013 - Day 2 - Highlights Q&A - What Are You Presenting On?
Today, October 16, 2013: PASS DAY2
PASS Summit Day 1……complete……..Great learning, check! Awesome sessions and nuclear networking! You can read my...
2013-10-16
1,127 reads
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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...
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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