Taking It To The Next Level
Have you set the bar high enough to ensure your success?
You’re reading Taking It To The Next Level, day 5 of 5...
2011-03-31
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Blog Posts
To Do: Win Great SQL Training and a Cruise
Wondering what to do when you get a break from work email today?
Make your opening move in a fun contest.
What’s...
2011-03-31
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Brad McGehee talking about tempdb issues
Brad presented a session that tries to help you identify and fix tempdb problems. Performance monitor is your friend. the...
2011-03-30
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Brian Kelley on Security at SQL Server Connections
Random notes from Brian Kelley’s security talk. Brian spent a number of years working a a security guy for a...
2011-03-30
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Dude, where’s my memory?
A session I have wanted to see. Marciej Pilecki has done this before with high ratings and I have missed...
2011-03-30
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I laughed, I cried, it was better than CATS: The Fast Track Data Warehouse 3.0 Reference Guide
Careful what you say about cats, lady.
You know what’s crazy?
A comprehensive, technical, well thought-out, and ENJOYABLE document. One written with...
2011-03-30
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Improving Meetings
Most folks I know hate meetings. They especially hate meetings about meetings. Recently I was working with a developer who...
2011-03-30
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NULLIF
Do you use NULLIF? For me, this command has been seldom used. Because of that, I have been dabbling with...
2011-03-30
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NULLIF
Do you use NULLIF? For me, this command has been seldom used. Because of that, I have been dabbling with it a bit lately to make sure I have...
2011-03-30
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SQL Saturday #74 Jacksonville
For the 4th year SQL Saturday comes to Jacksonville, FL this year on April 30, 2011. Many of you already...
2011-03-30
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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