Connect is dead! Long live feedback.azure.com!
After years of having to deal with Connect – the feedback platform of Microsoft – it is announced a successor has been...
2017-12-18
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Blog Posts
Creating a SQL Server Test Lab On Your Workstation – Part One, Installing The Domain Controller
One of the most useful tools to the DBA when we need to test new features, recreate a fault that...
2017-12-18
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Design Concepts for Better Power BI Reports Part 3: Gestalt Principles
The Gestalt principles of visual perception describe how humans tend to organize visual elements into groups or unified wholes to...
2017-12-18
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My SQL Server Management Studio Setup
We’re all creatures of habit, and work more efficiently when we know exactly where to find the tools we need....
2017-12-18
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Power BI – Problem, Design, Solution (Folder Source Option for JSON files)
Hello Everyone! In this episode of the “Problem, Design, Solution” series we will be talking about the “Folder” option inside...
2017-12-18
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Query Store Wait Statistics with sys.query_store_wait_stats
The second best thing to questions that people ask is when I sit down to write a book. It’s so...
2017-12-18
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Restrict the usage of a SQL Server Authenticated Application Id
SQL Server login ids may not be the most secure thing in the world but they are likely to be...
2017-12-18 (first published: 2017-12-06)
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SQL Server 2016 – How to use Dynamic Data Masking (DDM)?
Dynamic Data Masking (DDM) is new feature of SQL Server 2016. DDM helps in preventing unauthorized access to sensitive data....
2017-12-18
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SQL Server DBCC CHECKDB – Going Parallel
DBCC CHECKDB has the ability to perform parallel checking of objects. However, it absolutely depends on the edition of SQL...
2017-12-18
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The Fine Art Of Translation
I remember being thoroughly baffled in grade school by word problems. How in the world was I supposed to translate...
2017-12-18
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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...
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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