PASS Summit 2015 Keynote – Day 2
Today is the second day of the SQL PASS Summit in Seattle, Washington. I’ll be live blogging today’s keynote address....
2015-10-29
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Blog Posts
PASS Summit 2015: So Far
It’s Kilt Day!
I want to give a quick assessment on how the Summit has been for me so far. Monday,...
2015-10-29
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PASS Summit Key Note Day 2 – Recap
As I sit here in an offshoot of the convention center, I started reflecting back to this morning’s keynote for...
2015-10-29
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PASS Summit Session Follow-up: The Plan Cache Whisperer
I’ve wrapped up my session at my first session at this year’s PASS Summit. My session this Thursday was The Plan...
2015-10-29
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Tons of Updates to Power BI in October!
There were so many updates to Power BI this month I thought I’d put all the links to the information...
2015-10-29
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Tons of Updates to Power BI in October!
There were so many updates to Power BI this month I thought I’d put all the links to the information...
2015-10-29
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Azure SQL Database
So far I have strictly focused on Extended Events for SQL Server installations. This means I have been looking at Extended...
2015-10-28
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Azure SQL Database
What hasn't received any TLC is Extended Events from the Azure SQL Database perspective. You may be wondering why it matters since I just said that Extended Events is...
2015-10-28
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Boston BI User Group Meeting–Dashboard Design with Microsoft: Power BI vs Datazen (10/13/15)
Thanks for joining Anthony Martin (@SQLMartini) and I at the Boston BI User Group Meeting in October. During the session,...
2015-10-28 (first published: 2015-10-20)
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Idera ACE 2016
If you have been around the SQL Community long enough, you probably have heard of a software company called Idera....
2015-10-28
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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...
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