Thank You!
I am humbled and honored (and more than a little horrified) to be on this list of the Best of...
2014-02-06
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Blog Posts
Virtual Lab – Design and Setup
This is part of a series where I set up a virtual lab for testing and misc work. The other...
2014-02-06
1,293 reads
Virtualization resource consumption counters lie to you
OK, so maybe they do not lie to you, but I got your attention. In virtualized environments, the performance statistics...
2014-02-06 (first published: 2014-01-28)
2,130 reads
Your top 10 favorite Excel posts of 2013
The most popular Excel blog posts of 2013 reflect your interest in the new capabilities we’ve added to Excel this...
2014-02-06
348 reads
Automate T-SQL Merge For Loading Dimensions
If you’re a data warehouse developer, chances are you use T-SQL Merge statement to process slowly changing dimensions. If you’ve...
2014-02-05
1,335 reads
Free data & statistics, data collection, analysis, visualization and sharing – knoema.com
Knoema is a knowledge platform. The basic idea is to connect data with analytical and presentation tools. As a result,...
2014-02-05
556 reads
Just use Version Control
There are free systems out there. If you have no budget, and want to get started, download one of these:
Subversion:...
2014-02-05 (first published: 2014-01-28)
2,943 reads
Master Data Services for the Beginner Part 03
Introduction
In yesterday’s discussion we looked at creating entities and their related attributes. We learnt that a ‘model’ could be very...
2014-02-05 (first published: 2014-01-28)
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New Data Science – What’s Next?
While every organization is different, their “big data” is often very similar. It typically comprises massive amounts of data across...
2014-02-05
408 reads
Powershell – Extract Versions for SQL Features
Over the last few months I’ve been directed to ensure that all of our SQL Servers in the Development and...
2014-02-05
1,531 reads
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