April Hammond .net User Group Presentation - SQL Server Security and Permissions
Here's the slide deck and sample files from last night's presentation at the Hammond .net User Group. We discussed SQL...
2012-04-26
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Blog Posts
Beer, Cheese and SQL Saturday 118 Madison
This past weekend I (w|t) headed up to Madison, WI to attend and present at SQL Saturday 118. The MADPASS...
2012-04-26
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Offset without OFFSET
A while ago Robert Cary posted an article on SQL Server Central entitled 2005 Paging – The Holy Grail which is,...
2012-04-26
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See you at SQL Saturday 130 Jacksonville!
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Hello Dear Reader, this Saturday April 28th is SQL Saturday 130 in Jacksonville FL! The good people from the Jacksonville...
2012-04-26
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SQL Server 2012 Diagnostic Information Queries (April 2012)
It is hard to believe, but SQL Server 2012 has been GA for nearly a month now. Because of this,...
2012-04-26
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SSWUG Expo..I'm up!
I am proud to say that one of the webcasts I taped last year for SSWUG is part of the...
2012-04-26
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The Mentoring Experiment – Cycle 2
It’s been a long time, almost a year since Andy Warren and I kicked off The Mentoring Experiment. We had...
2012-04-26
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UF Dissolves Computer Science Program, Increases Funding for “Future Jobs”
In a bold and decisive move earlier today, the University of Florida has decided to dissolve their computer science education...
2012-04-26 (first published: 2012-04-24)
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2012 (2011) Data Breach Report
I had a chance over the weekend to finish reading the Verizon 2012 Data Breach Investigations Report. It’s a compilation...
2012-04-25
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Creating a Symmetric Key in SQL Server
Symmetric keys in SQL Server are recommended for encrypting data in columns. They are a good balance of security and...
2012-04-25
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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