You Aren't That Interesting
Fundamentally as I get older, I think more and more men are pigs. There is definitely something wrong with them,...
2009-03-11
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Blog Posts
Adding Value
I went to get new business cards from VistaPrint recently. There are lots of choices and it took longer than...
2009-03-10
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Is it time for SQL Server to have Isolated Transactions?
SQL Server allows nesting of Transactions –in a sense. In truth, there is only one Transaction, with each ‘nested transaction’...
2009-03-10
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Microsoft March Security Bulletin Release
This month there were 3 security bulletins released and 1 re-released:
Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for March 2009
First, let's tackle the...
2009-03-10
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PASS Connector Editorial for March 11, 2009
I currently write the editorial for the PASS Connector which is published every two weeks as part of my role...
2009-03-10
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The Kindle Alternative - Humor
Kind of funny. I saw this on Twitter the other day from @DanNunan and then someone sent it to me...
2009-03-10
764 reads
[Off-Topic] Eleven Year-Old Making a Difference
Those who know me personally know that I grow my hair out to donate for kids. I have donated a...
2009-03-09
1,015 reads
Book Review: Murach's SQL Server 2008 For Developers
I received a review copy of Murach's SQL Server 2008 For Developers a couple months back and just finished up...
2009-03-09
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Netbooks - Hands On Review
The other day I was wandering around Best Buy and noticed that they had a few netbooks for sale. I...
2009-03-09
1,346 reads
Book Review: Big Red - Voyage of a Trident Submarine
I've grown up reading Tom Clancy and probably most of you have at least seen Red October, so this book...
2009-03-08
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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...
RANK() vs DENSE_RANK(): #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I haven’t done one of these in awhile, but I saw an article recently...
Forums
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