SQL Server 2008 R2 Released to Manufacturing
Microsoft scheduled a conference call this morning, and I jumped on since I was laid up in bed with a...
2010-04-21
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Blog Posts
SQL Server Standard: Volume 7, Issue 3
FINALLY!
It’s not like Don Gabor had the article done in January or anything…oh wait. He did have the article done...
2010-04-21
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SQLSaturday #49 in Orlando!
We just put the site up, starting a little earlier than last year, and over the course of this week...
2010-04-21
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Thoughts on the SQL Server 2008 R2 Press Conference
If you weren't aware, Microsoft held a BI telelconference today which announced the release to manufacturing (RTM) of SQL Server...
2010-04-21
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Virtualisation – An Introduction
For the last two years or so, in one capacity or another I have been running SQL Server in virtual...
2010-04-21
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A DMV a Day – Day 20
The DMV for Day 20 is sys.dm_exec_cached_plans which is described by BOL as:
Returns a row for each query plan that...
2010-04-20
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Growing PASS Step One - Communication
My History with PASS
Over the last two years I have become more involved in the SQL Server community through attending...
2010-04-20
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Review: Ninite
Found Ninite while browsing a list of efficiency tools on PCWorld.com. It’s a one stop super installer, you run through...
2010-04-20
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Sad Sack – Hardware Failures all over
I feel like I have some bad digital karma lately. In the past week I’ve had these downed systems:
iPod iTouch...
2010-04-20
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SQL Saturday #39, New York, New York
A town so big they named it twice.
If you’re not excited about SQL Saturday in NYC this weekend… why not?...
2010-04-20
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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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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