Gotcha! PowerShell Array Initialization, Difference between PowerShell 2.0 and 4.0
I like to initialize my arrays by strongly typing my variable as an array, and setting it to null. PowerShell...
2015-03-24
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Blog Posts
My Specialty
So I was reading the following blog post by Brent Ozar and I think it finally hit me right between the...
2015-03-24
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The Basic TRY..CATCH
Have you written a TRY..CATCH statement in T-SQL? I hadn’t done it for most of my career, since the construct...
2015-03-24
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The shaky bug in SSIS
You may or may not have noticed it after installing SQL Server 2012: the designer interface in Visual Studio 2010/2012...
2015-03-24
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Use the WordPress Revision Counter to Keep Shipping Posts
I haven’t been at this blogging thing an extremely long time, and I certainly haven’t been as consistent as I’ve...
2015-03-24
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Using New-TimeSpan to convert friendly time
The question was this:
This is just a quick/fast snippet in response to that question, but I can think of a...
2015-03-24
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Who is cjsommer?
I’ve been a problem solver as far back as I can remember, always looking for a new challenge. I love...
2015-03-24
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0 to Speaker
Recently the last day to submit a session for the 2015 Pass Summit rolled around. I mention this because I...
2015-03-23
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Exam Prep 70-463: Executing packages 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...
2015-03-23
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Fix Inconsistent Line Terminators in SSIS
There is a flat file processing issue I’ve run into a number of times over the years, and it’s come...
2015-03-23
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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...
Forums
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