My Azure ARM template development workflow
Writing infrastructure as code is pretty nice and I enjoy the declarative approach of defining what you want and letting the tooling take care of the how. I guess...
2017-12-13
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Blog Posts
Security Architecture: Knowing the Adversary
When I present or teach on a security topic, I take the time to cover the mindset of the adversary....
2017-12-13 (first published: 2017-12-04)
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2017-12-13
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The Value of Consistent Design
Yesterday I wrote about best practices, illustrating that what may be an assumed technical design standard doesn’t fit every scenario....
2017-12-13
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Learning Through Blogging and Speaking
This post is a response to this month’s T-SQL Tuesday prompt created by Mala Mahadevan. T-SQL Tuesday was created by...
2017-12-12
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Learning Through Blogging and Speaking
This post is a response to this month's T-SQL Tuesday prompt created by Mala Mahadevan. T-SQL Tuesday was created by Adam Machanic and is a way for SQL users...
2017-12-12
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Power BI Custom Visuals Class (Module 80 – TreeViz)
In this module you will learn how to use the TreeViz Custom Visual. The TreeViz is a breakdown tree that...
2017-12-12 (first published: 2017-12-04)
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Reducing the Number of Reads in Your Queries
“A-Bridged” – reducing reads – get it? I’m sorry you’re reading this. Photo by Jamie Street on UnsplashIn last week’s post, we went over how...
2017-12-12
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Reducing the Number of Reads in Your Queries
In last week's post, we went over how one of best ways to improve query performance was to reduce the number of reads that your query has to do.
Less reads...
2017-12-12
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SQL Server Failed to Open Loopback Connection – What?
I could not read my error log on one of my local SQL Servers, when I executed the following code:
EXEC...
2017-12-12
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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...
Forums
Missing the Jaro Winkler Distance
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25 Years Later: What SQLServerCentral Meant to Me
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Doing Good at SQL Server Central
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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