Exploring Window Functions Execution Plans
There are quite a few different ways that you’re likely to see window functions evidence themselves within your execution plan. Let’s take a look at one example. Window Functions...
2024-06-24
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Blog Posts
2024-06-24
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How to give developers access to Query Store
Let’s have devs look at their own query performance. Yes, please, sign me up for that! Sometimes, it’s hard for me to know the best course of action, especially...
2024-06-24 (first published: 2024-06-03)
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Resetting Git and Abandoning Changes–#SQLNewBlogger
I recently had an issue in one of my Git repos, and decided to drop all my local changes and just pull down from the remote. This post looks...
2024-06-24
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Transform yourself into an Invaluable Data Leader in just 6 weeks
I’ve collaborated with two industry experts to design a transformative course for data leaders: “The Technical and Strategic Data Leader.” This six-week intensive learning journey is crafted to elevate...
2024-06-24
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A Global Team Meeting
The last few years at Redgate we’ve had the entire (or most) of the marketing department come to Cambridge in the UK for a week. A few weeks ago...
2024-06-21
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A New Word: sayfish
sayfish – n. a sincere emotion that seems to wither into mush as soon as you try to put it into words – like reeling in a shimmering beast...
2024-06-21
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How important is having great soft skills as a Software Engineer for personal growth and career…
How important is having great soft skills as a Software Engineer for personal growth and career successAs an Engineer, I would like to understand what I need to do to...
2024-06-21 (first published: 2024-05-26)
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What to Know about Power BI Theme Colors
Power BI reports have a theme that specifies the default colors, fonts, and visual styles. In Power BI Desktop, you can choose to use a built-in theme, start with...
2024-06-21
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Speaking at SQL Saturday South Florida 2024
I’m heading to SQL Saturday South Florida 2024 next week. This is my second time attending the event and if you’re in the Miami area (or want to take...
2024-06-20
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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...
RANK() vs DENSE_RANK(): #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I haven’t done one of these in awhile, but I saw an article recently...
Forums
is it true we cant debug c# scripts in ssis anymore under vs
Hi, i'm running vs2022. I'm trying out a c# script that i'd like to...
Missing the Jaro Winkler Distance
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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