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Bradley Ball is a Sr. Azure FastTrack Customer Engineer for Microsoft, and former Data Platform MVP. During his IT career Bradley has spent 8 years working as a Defense contractor for clients such as the U.S. Army, The Executive Office of the President of the United States for the Obama Administration, and is the former Data Platform Practice Manager for Pragmatic Works Consulting, now 3Cloud. He has presented at SQL Saturdays, SSUG's, SQL Rally, DevConnections, SQLBits, SQL Live 360, and the PASS Summit. Bradley co-hosts the Tales From The Field YouTube show https://aka.ms/TftF/youtube , he can also be found blogging on https://www.SQLBalls.com

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PASS Summit 2013 Deck and Demos Live

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Ready to rock some Internals.Hello Dear Reader! This is just a quick blog to say that my Deck and Demo's...

2013-10-18

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PASS Summit 2013 Keynotes Day 2

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Okay Dear Reader one more time let me say that if you are interested in Hekaton In-Memory OLTP Then you...

2013-10-17

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PASS 2013 Keynotes Live Day 1

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Final thoughts Dear Reader. This is a big launch year for Microsoft and we are getting some very cool toys...

2013-10-16

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DevConnections Deck & Demos Live!

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Hello Dear Reader! Just a quick blog today. The Deck and Demo’s for my Presentations today at SQL DevConnections are...

2013-10-02

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Can You Compress a Temp Table?

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Hello Dear Reader! We are finishing up the final day of the Performance Tuning Workshop here in Atlanta and I...

2013-09-26 (first published: 2013-09-24)

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Performance Tuning In LA!

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Hello Dear Reader! This year Pragmatic Works has brought our Performance Tuning Workshop to Chicago, Boston, and Atlanta. Due to...

2013-09-26

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SQL 2014 SSMS is Killing my C:

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I could hear SQL saying to my C: Drive "Why You Little...." Hello Dear Reader!

The Blog about SQL Saturday 232 coming...

2013-09-17

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T-SQL Tuesday #46 Rube Goldberg Machine aka Automating Deleting Older Certificates

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Hello Dear Reader! This is the second Tuesday of the month and you know what that means, T-SQL Tuesday the...

2013-09-12 (first published: 2013-09-10)

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24 Hours of PASS Q & A: Why are Bit’s Flipped?

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http://bit.ly/16UyEPHHello Dear Reader. Almost two weeks ago I delivered a presentation for the 24 Hours of PASS on SQL Server...

2013-08-16

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The Man Who Thinks He Can

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Hello Dear Reader! I got a lot of great questions during the 24 Hours of PASS last week and I'm...

2013-08-09

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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?

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