SSDT Myths 1 - SSDT only works with TFS
I was reading a white paper from a Sql Server tools vendor about how to integrate their tools with SSDT and while it was very interesting there were a...
2015-04-02
Blog Posts
Finally, a Universal Data Integration Utility
Earlier today, the fine folks at the F. Oobar Corporation released a revolutionary product: a universal data integration utility. This...
2015-04-01
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Indexes fill factor impact on the fragmentation
This is a short post that is considering the indexes fill factor impact on the fragmentation. Analysis of indexes is...
2015-04-01
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Microsoft buys the dictionary
It seems that Microsoft has finally gotten tired of all the jokes about the word “performant” or using “ask” as...
2015-04-01
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The FILL FACTOR impact on the indexes fragmentation
This is a short post that is considering the indexes fill factor impact on the fragmentation. Analysis of indexes is...
2015-04-01
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The FILL FACTOR impact on the indexes fragmentation
This is a short post that is considering the indexes fill factor impact on the fragmentation. Analysis of indexes is a continuous process on the company’s databases that you,...
2015-04-01
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The FILL FACTOR impact on the indexes fragmentation
This is a short post that is considering the indexes fill factor impact on the fragmentation. Analysis of indexes is a continuous process on the company’s databases that you,...
2015-04-01
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An Easter SQL
Since Easter is nearly upon us, I got to thinking once again about how challenging it is to calculate the...
2015-03-31
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Apress April Fools 40% Discount Promo & Healthy SQL
April 1, 2015 – I am delighted to take part in the April
Fool’s Promotion by Publisher Apress, who are
featuring some of...
2015-03-31
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Exam Prep 70-463: Logging in SSIS 2012
This post is part of a series on this blog that will help me, and hopefully you, pass exam 70-463: Implementing...
2015-03-31 (first published: 2015-03-09)
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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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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