Virtual Box is TOO Small
I have been working on upgrading my laptop. Since my laptop housed a bunch of my virtual machines for various presentations and labs, that means also upgrading and/or converting...
2014-08-05
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Blog Posts
Building The SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan–Part 30
First, a quick update on the LinkedIn advetising campaign. One click so far, no registrations. More views than I expected...
2014-08-04
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Effective Business Intelligence
How Business Intelligence Can Help
Effective business intelligence starts with questions that will help your organization make better decisions. For example,...
2014-08-04
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Last Weeks Top “Reading” Links #95
It’s Monday time for this week’s weekly link round-up. If you want to catch these links “live” (so exciting), follow...
2014-08-04
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Murder in Raleigh
I am about to set sail on a new venture with my next official whistle stop. This year has been plenty full of whistle stops and I plan on...
2014-08-04
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Presenting at PSSUG
Coming up this week, I have been given the opportunity to do something I enjoy doing. I have been invited...
2014-08-04
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Presenting at PSSUG
Coming up this week, I have been given the opportunity to do something I enjoy doing. I have been invited to present to the folks in Philadelphia. Sebastian...
2014-08-04
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The Growth Of SQLSaturday
A recent Connector showed the following stats for SQLSaturday for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2014 and mentioned 86...
2014-08-04 (first published: 2014-07-28)
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What is ANSI_NULLS and why will I be glad when it finally goes away?
Recently I wrote about what it means that a value is NULL. Right at the beginning I mentioned ANSI_NULLS and...
2014-08-04 (first published: 2014-07-28)
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Writing Parametrized MDX for Reporting Services
Writing MDX inside of Reporting Services has been the nemesis for many report writers for far too long. If all...
2014-08-04
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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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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