Formatting Code in ADS with SQL Prompt
One of the most popular and widely used features of SQL Prompt is formatting code. The SQL Prompt extension is in public preview and you can get it here....
2020-05-27 (first published: 2020-05-15)
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Blog Posts
How SQL Server stores data types: money
In this post we look at how SQL Server stores currency values using the MONEY and SMALLMONEY data types. If you’d like to read the previous posts in this...
2020-05-27
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New Pluralsight Course – Configuring and Managing Kubernetes Networking, Services, and Ingress
My new course “Configuring and Managing Kubernetes Networking, Services, and Ingress” is now available on Pluralsight here! Check out the trailer here or if you want to dive right in go here! ...
2020-05-27
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New Pluralsight Course – Configuring and Managing Kubernetes Networking, Services, and Ingress
My new course “Configuring and Managing Kubernetes Networking, Services, and Ingress” is now available on Pluralsight here! Check out the trailer here or if you want to dive right in go here! In this...
2020-05-27
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New Pluralsight Course – Configuring and Managing Kubernetes Networking, Services, and Ingress
My new course “Configuring and Managing Kubernetes Networking, Services, and Ingress” is now available on Pluralsight here! Check out the trailer here or if you want to dive right in go here! In this...
2020-05-27
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OPENJSON – using the default schema to collect new information
We’ve looked at reading JSON from disk and also verifying that a string we have contains valid JSON data. But, naturally, we’d like to do more than that. Well,...
2020-05-27
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Power BI Monthly Digest – May 2020
This month we will likely have two releases of the Power BI Desktop. In May’s Power BI Digest I will again guide you through some
2020-05-27
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SSMS Quick Tip: Never lose your script from overwrite again!
Twenty something years ago when I started my SQL Server career there was an amazing tool called Query Analyzer. Honestly I’d say if Microsoft did nothing more than bring...
2020-05-27 (first published: 2020-05-07)
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Step By Step Installation of SQL Server 2019 with all features
[MSSQLFUN & Decode ITeS becomes a family of 1500 individuals across the globe. Please join us on Facebook & YouTube.] Today, I will take you to step by step installation of...
2020-05-27
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Step By Step Installation of SQL Server 2019 with all features
[MSSQLFUN & Decote ITeS becomes a family of 1500 individuals across the globe. Please join us on Facebook & YouTube.] Today, I will take you to step by step...
2020-05-27
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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