Time Off, Recharge, Rethink
Some of you may have noticed that I haven’t posted for a while. The 12th May was the date of...
2010-05-25
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Blog Posts
Yesterday's Vermont SQL Server User Group Presentation on Database Mirroring (Official PASS Chapter for Vermont)
To celebrate the Victoria Day Holiday in Canada I drove down to the U.S.A. with 'ol Volvo Wagon (not Smart this time, since 3k of...
2010-05-25
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Content Copy Followup
Last week I posted an article about plagiarism. This is a follow-up to that. After posting that blog article, Steiner...
2010-05-24
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Create Indexes from the Missing Indexes DMV
Glenn Berry (Blog) writes a lot of queries to extract information from the system DMV’s. One of them in particular...
2010-05-24
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East Coast PASS Event Options
After asking members about where the PASS Summit should be located and then deciding to keep it in Seattle for...
2010-05-24
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Image Testing
One of the things I heard recently from someone was that they clicked some of the links in the newsletter...
2010-05-24
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It’s Done - SQLSat35
This is a strange feeling. No frantic deadlines. No daily conference calls with the team. No hurried trips to the...
2010-05-24
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MS Airlift Event in Seattle
I have posted several entries lately about events that I’ve been attending, speaking and listening at and one of the...
2010-05-24
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PASS Update #33 (SQLSaturday Transfer)
I’ve just finished handing over the source code for all the SQLSaturday related items after finishing up a couple minor...
2010-05-24
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Slick New Software
I’m lazy. And frankly, I’m not ashamed to admit it. When a software comes along that can do the work...
2010-05-24
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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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is it true we cant debug c# scripts in ssis anymore under vs
Hi, i'm running vs2022. I'm trying out a c# script that i'd like to...
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