Study Tips for the SQL MCM Exams
Study Tips for the SQL MCM Exams
I met the new rotation of the SQL Server Certified Master program on Friday....
2010-05-16
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Blog Posts
Is Microsoft “years behind” in cloud apps?
Microsoft is associated almost exclusively with Windows and Office. Unfortunately a lot more innovation areas are not well known… Is Microsoft losing the cloud apps? Let me share with...
2010-05-15
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Is Microsoft “years behind” in cloud apps?
Microsoft is associated almost exclusively with Windows and Office. Unfortunately a lot more...
2010-05-15
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Mea Culpa: TweetRandomizer-gate
If you’ve ever read Spider-Man or spent any sort of time around the Marvel Universe (movies included) you’ll have no...
2010-05-15
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SQL Agent Visual Job Schedule Viewer
If you have experience with the SQL Server Agent you quickly realize the difficulty in managing job schedules. On a...
2010-05-15
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Daily SQL Server 2008 New Feature – Day 7
Every day for the next couple of weeks, I aim to highlight one of SQL Server 2008’s new features, simply...
2010-05-14
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Interviewed by Professional Development Virtual Chapter
Kathi Kellenburger, fellow MVP and friend, pinged me recently for an interview for the Professional Development Virtual Chapter. This is...
2010-05-14
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May 2010 S3OLV Meeting Recap
On the evening of May 13th, S3OLV held its monthly meeting. We had some really good discussion, and got to...
2010-05-14
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Microsoft Certified Architect - Infrastructure and Solutions Are No More
A friend of mine had been out to the Microsoft Certified Architect site recently and noted that the Infrastructure and...
2010-05-14
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SQL Azure and T-SQL
SQL Server Azure database supports the T-SQL, but no at all! For the SQL Server Azure and T-SQL are available...
2010-05-14
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Blogs
RANK() vs DENSE_RANK(): #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I haven’t done one of these in awhile, but I saw an article recently...
Using CAT for Testing of Data Agents
In last months one of the scenarios where you can use AI has been...
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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