Reblog: March 8 to March 14
Welcome to this Friday’s reblog summary post. The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer...
2013-03-15
716 reads
StrateSQL
Last Weeks Top 20 “Reading” Links #23
Every day, I link out a few blogs posts and articles that I’ve read or used from across the internet....
2013-03-11
562 reads
Pragmatic Works Webcasts This Week #passwit
Every week, Pragmatic Works offers up its “Training on the Ts” webcast series and this month, in honor of Women’s History Month,...
2013-03-11
570 reads
Reblog: March 1 to March 7
Welcome to this Friday’s reblog summary post. The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer...
2013-03-08
634 reads
Index Analysis March Update
In yesterdays duplicate index blog post, I mentioned that there would be an update to the index analysis stored procedure...
2013-03-07
720 reads
That’s Actually A Duplicate Index
As I’ve worked with clients on performance tuning through index improvements, one of the common areas that I discuss with...
2013-03-06
2,441 reads
Last Weeks Top 10 “Reading” Links #22
Every day, I link out a few blogs posts and articles that I’ve read or used from across the internet....
2013-03-04
589 reads
March 2013 – Monthly SQL Server Checklist
It’s the first Monday of the month, do you know where your servers are?
Hopefully, they are still in your data...
2013-03-04
809 reads
Five Virtual Labs for the SQL Server 2012 DBA
Wouldn’t it be nice if you had a chance to try out the features of SQL Server? Maybe give them...
2013-03-01 (first published: 2013-02-21)
4,262 reads
Reblog: February 22 to February 28
Welcome to this Friday’s reblog summary post. The aim of these posts is to bring some old posts that newer...
2013-03-01
932 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