On the Tenth Day…
Silver and Gold have a way of really bringing the look and feel of the Christmas season.
Silver and Gold also...
2012-12-22
1,256 reads
Jason Brimhall
On the Tenth Day…
Silver and Gold have a way of really bringing the look and feel of the Christmas season. Silver and Gold also seem to represent something of greater value. We...
2012-12-22
3 reads
On the Ninth Day…
Creating a custom data collector can be very handy for a DBA. Especially in times of troubleshooting. These collectors are also quite useful for trending and analysis. Consider this...
2012-12-21
14 reads
On the Ninth Day…
It’s the end of the world as we know it. And as the song goes…I feel fine! But hey, we...
2012-12-21
1,233 reads
On the Eighth Day…
Today’s post is merely an illusion. The illusion being that we have finally stopped talking about the msdb database. I’ll...
2012-12-20
1,559 reads
On the Eighth Day…
Today’s post is merely an illusion. The illusion being that we have finally stopped talking about the msdb database. I’ll explain about that later in this post. This should...
2012-12-20
4 reads
On the Seventh Day…
So far this series has been a bit of fun. We have discussed a fair amount of useful things to date. And here we are only on the seventh...
2012-12-19
4 reads
On the Seventh Day…
So far this series has been a bit of fun. We have discussed a fair amount of useful things to...
2012-12-19
1,430 reads
On the Sixth Day…
What better way to kick off the sixth day of pre-Christmas than with six slices of foie-gras? No animals have been hurt in the making of this post! This...
2012-12-18
5 reads
Let’s Talk About Joins
T-SQL Tuesday #37
This month please join us in the TSQL blog party that happens on the second tuesday of the...
2012-12-17 (first published: 2012-12-11)
2,936 reads
Blogs
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...
dataMinds Saturday 2026 – Slides
At Saturday the 21st of February I’m presenting an introduction to dimensional modelling at...
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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