Begining Thoughts on a PASS Speaker Certification
Consider this one a thinking out loud post more than most. We’ve had an explosion of speakers in the SQL...
2010-08-10
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Blog Posts
MDX Puzzle #5 - Solution
Again I want to apologize for the slow posting of the solution to this puzzle, but I have been hard...
2010-08-10
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MS Lightswitch – Interesting?
MS just announced this publicly last week, it’s a Visual Studio product that seems to be geared towards the not-quite-developer...
2010-08-10
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R & R
It is once again time for the blog party known as TSQL Tuesday. I am hosting this month and wanted...
2010-08-10
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The PASS SQL Rally Logo - I Won!
Well not me. It wasn’t my design, but when I went through the entries, this was the one that caught...
2010-08-10
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The PASS SQLRally Logo Winner Is…
With 63% of the total votes our winner is Speedometer! Congratulations to azzam on 99designs and thank you to everyone...
2010-08-10
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Tools Only Help
“Building an easy-to-use tool does not make an amateur more skilled at making applications and more than a $900 table...
2010-08-10
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T-SQL Tuesday - Beach Time
I almost forgot about T-SQL Tuesday this time, so I’m scrambling to get an entry done today.
This is a...
2010-08-10
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T-SQL Tuesday #009: Beach Time: My Work Away From Work
T-SQL Tuesday #009: Beach Time: My Work Away From Work
This blog entry is participating in T-SQL Tuesday #009, hosted...
2010-08-10
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A Tail Log Needs a Clean Shutdown
Someone posted a note asking how they might restore if the disk that contained their transaction log crashed. I replied...
2010-08-09
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Blogs
A bespoke reporting solution doesn’t have to cost the earth
By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
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...
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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