Rendering code nicely in blogs and forums.
I wrote the prettifier specifically to help with posting SQL into blogs and forums. You can find it here http://extras.sqlservercentral.com/prettifier/prettifier.aspx...
2008-10-07
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Blog Posts
The Best Database Engine - Why Did I Write This?
Why did I write this? I got challenged by Andy Warren
to write a bit about why I wrote something. I...
2008-10-07
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The Call for Nominations to the SQL PASS Board of Directors is Now Open Until October 24, 2008
If you have ever considered taking a leadership role in PASS, you should seriously consider becoming a SQL PASS board...
2008-10-07
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Final Reminder - SQLSaturday #5 & #9 Coming Up on October 11, 2008
You can find details about these great free events at www.sqlsaturday.com. It's definitely been interesting watching them grow from afar...
2008-10-06
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IndyTechFest 2008
I spend the weekend in Indianapolis at the IndyTechFest 2008 and had a great time. It's a smaller, regional conference...
2008-10-06
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IndyTechFest A Great Success
Just got back from attending IndyTechFest in Indianapolis, IN, which was held on Saturday, October 4, 2008, and had nearly...
2008-10-06
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Notes on Went Well & What We Could Have Done Better - From SQLSaturday #8
As I mentioned yesterday things went pretty well, but always room for improvement. Here are some notes, if nothing else...
2008-10-06
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Social Hacks - Why Did I Write This?
Why did I write this? I got challenged by Andy Warren
to write a bit about why I wrote something. I...
2008-10-06
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SQL Server 2008 Books Online Have Been Updated
The version of SQL Server 2008 Books Online that was included with the RTM version has now been updated to...
2008-10-06
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Un-concatenating row values
/* Anith Sen's achievement, in his article 'Concatenating Row Values in Transact-SQL' has been to list and illustrate the many ways...
2008-10-06
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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...
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