Missing Checkbox for Security Filter in Power BI Desktop
Just a quick blog post so that other people don’t waste 15 minutes of their life looking for a missing...
2017-02-17 (first published: 2017-02-09)
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Blog Posts
The Costs of Hiring Cheaper Consultants
From time to time, I see posts in forums from people complaining about how much some consultants charge. A really...
2017-02-17
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vCenter Server fails to start, Purge and Shrink Vcenter SQL Database
One of my client vCenter Server fails to start as below shown error in event logs.Could not allocate space for...
2017-02-17
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Deadlock on ALTER DATABASE
I had an interesting problem recently. A database was stuck in single user mode. How exactly was it stuck you...
2017-02-16
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Dynamically Changing Shapes in Power BI – Alternatives
NOTE: the DAX presented in this blog post is written in my locale (nl-BE). This means that semicolons are used...
2017-02-16 (first published: 2017-02-08)
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Getting Started with PowerBI: Building Graphs (Part 3)
This is part 3 of the Getting Started with Power BI series. Power BI is a powerful reporting and dashboarding...
2017-02-16
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Resolution of Database Consistency Error in SQL Server
There are so many facilities and amenities in SQL Server along with built-in methods, which assist users in some bad...
2017-02-16
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True story: Encryption in progress stuck
Working with a couple of databases that needed TDE I noticed when I enabled one of them that it was...
2017-02-16
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Updates to the Power BI course
Recently I published an open-source course/workshop to learn Power BI Desktop. Fellow MVP Dan English (blog | twitter) gave me the...
2017-02-16
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Azure Advisor Recommendations
Logging into the Azure portal is a daily task of mine and my eyes light up when I see features...
2017-02-15
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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...
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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