Thiago Zavaschi

Thiago is a DBA, Software Architect and Computer Scientist. He is currently doing a Masters degree in computer science, specifically in automated facial expression recognition. He's deploys a lot of Business Inteligence and High Availability solutions, as well as a lot of custom .NET applications (mainly web ERP applications). He is an MCT, MCTS (Web, SQL Server 2005/2008) and MCPD (Web Development), gives technical lectures, helps out in SQL Server and .NET communities, and also is a moderator at PowerPivot FAQ.

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String Similarity II

What is the range for the result from the EDIT_DISTANCE_SIMILARITY() function in SQL Server 2025?

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