Blogger Awards
A few days ago I wrote about an election that was taking place (ok so it was a week ago at this point). That election was the SQLServerpedia Awards....
2010-11-10
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Jason Brimhall
November S3OLV Recap
Last Thursday we had the monthly meeting for our local PASS chapter. I would normally try to get the recap...
2010-11-09
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November S3OLV Recap
Last Thursday we had the monthly meeting for our local PASS chapter. I would normally try to get the recap out a bit sooner. This month, I intentionally delayed...
2010-11-09
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S3OLV Nov Reminder
This is a last minute reminder about the monthly S3OLV User Group meeting. It is being held on Nov. 4th,...
2010-11-04
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S3OLV Nov Reminder
This is a last minute reminder about the monthly S3OLV User Group meeting. It is being held on Nov. 4th, the first Thursday of the month rather than the...
2010-11-04
4 reads
Defensive Db Programming Chapter 07
We are here again after another …um long lapse in time … and ready for another episode in this series. Today...
2010-11-03
738 reads
Defensive Db Programming Chapter 07
We are here again after another …um long lapse in time … and ready for another episode in this series. Today we get to talk about chapter 7 in...
2010-11-03
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DB Maintenance
About a month ago I read a post by Brad McGehee (Blog | Twitter) concerning a checklist for SQL Server. It...
2010-11-02
574 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #012 – Skills
November is upon us and in some areas this also means that the leaves have changed color. With the change...
2010-11-02
630 reads
Voting Day is Here
Tis the season for voting and SQLServerPedia has thrown out an election as well. The SQLServerPedia awards are under way...
2010-11-02
426 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...
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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