Ravi Kumar SV

I am Ravi Kumar SV working as SQL Server Consultant for Hyderabad-based Healthcare Company. I started my IT career in 1998 with Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0. While working on Visual Basic 5 and 6 for five years, I was introduced to Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 there on I explored SQL Server technology. I have expertise in Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 to its latest form. I also worked with Pharma manufacturing Company, Jewellery manufacturing unit, and Healthcare Company as Sybase, SQL Server and Oracle consultant.

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Rules of Thumb in Physical Database Design
I am starting my first post in my blog of tuning the physical database...

2012-03-17

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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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