3D Printing for Covid19
A friend tagged me in a Facebook post about a surgical mask strap that had been remixed by a Boy Scout for faster printing and less filament usage. My...
2020-04-24 (first published: 2020-04-13)
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Blog Posts
Daily Coping 24 Apr 2020
I’ve started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m adding my responses for each...
2020-04-24
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Data Bits – Episode 7 – Mary Elizabeth McNeely
20+ year Oracle DBA Mary Elizabeth stopped by the Data Bits virtual studio today! Quotables: “Corona Curls”, “rolling around in the food” and “Capitalist Pirate” You can reach Mary...
2020-04-24
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Database classifications have changed
Some time back I wrote about the new data classification features in Azure and SQL Server Management Studio. If you’ve done quite a bit of work classifying your data...
2020-04-24 (first published: 2020-04-11)
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Join the Best Worst Code Contest today at 5pm BST / Noon Eastern #BestWorstCode
I have an idea! Let’s have a “Worst Code Contest.” Why do this? Bad code is really fun — at least, when you write it on purpose. And other...
2020-04-24
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Launch of YouTube Video Channel
Dear Friends We are launching the YouTube Channel “Decode ITES”. Decode ITES will be sharing technical videos over multiple IT infra skills like SQL Server, Postgres, Oracle, Windows, Public...
2020-04-24
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SQL Server Learning Series
Dear Friends Apologies for less knowledge sharing articles for a long time and Big thanks for stay connected with me. I will be coming up with the “SQL Server...
2020-04-24
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Working from Home Effectively
Some of us have been lucky enough to have already been working from home (WFH) prior to the world events. This has allowed most of us the ability to...
2020-04-24
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Daily Copying 23 Apr 2020
I’ve started to add a daily coping tip to the SQLServerCentral newsletter, which is helping me deal with the issues in the world. I’m adding my responses for each...
2020-04-23
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Live Stairways Day 1 Homework
I recorded my first class for the Live Stairways – Learning DAX and Power BI. My apologies for anyone that wanted to join. We had an error in the...
2020-04-23
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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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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