Live From @LearningTree London Backup and Restore - Day 3
This week I’m teaching Learning Tree’s course 2108 SQL Server Database Administration in the LEC in London. Following on from last weeks...
2016-07-14
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Gethyn Ellis
Live from @LearningTree London - Security Day - Day 2
This week I’m teaching Learning Tree’s course 2108 SQL Server Database Administration in the LEC in London. Following on from last weeks...
2016-07-13
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Are you a new SQL Server DBA? Live Blog @LearningTree
This week I’m teaching Learning Tree’s course 2108 SQL Server Database Administration course in LEC in London. Following on from...
2016-07-12
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Introducing SQL Server Reporting Services
In an earlier post I introduced the SQL Server umbrella and briefly discussed a number of products that make up...
2016-07-12 (first published: 2016-06-29)
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Influence Skills: Live from @LearningTree London Day 4
We've made it to the final day, day 4 of Learning Tree course 294 Influence Skills: Getting Results without Direct Authority.
Today...
2016-07-08
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Influence Skills: Live From London Day 3
The main news this morning: Wales' heroic efforts at the Euros came to end last night with a 2-0 defeat...
2016-07-07
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Do you have Influence? Live from London Day 2
Live from London Day 2
In the most important news of the day, Wales play Portugal in the semi-final of the...
2016-07-06
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Do You Want to Retain Your Best Employees?
I think you do.
According to a report by Oxford Economics it costs in excess of £30K, or if you prefer,...
2016-07-05
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Influence Skills Live from London Day 1
This week I am producing course 294 Influence Skills: Getting Results without Direct Authority. I wrote what being a producer...
2016-07-05
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Influence Skills
I wrote in my earlier post today that I was producing 294 Influence Skills: Getting results without direct authority. I...
2016-07-04
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Blogs
A bespoke reporting solution doesn’t have to cost the earth
By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
Presenting with Visual Studio Code
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
Advice I Like: In 100 Years
By Steve Jones
In 100 years a lot of what we take to be true now will...
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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