Last Week Reading (2019-11-10)
Hello all! An extraordinary week has just passed. Two big conferences took place in the USA, PASS Summit and Ignite, where Microsoft announced plenty of new products or updates....
2019-11-10
13 reads
Azure Player Blog
Last Week Reading (2019-11-03)
This week I’m offering you many posts about Cosmos DB, Azure Data Factory and how to design reliable Azure applications. Have a great week also for those of you...
2019-11-03
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Script and deploy the data for database from SSDT project
This post is a part of the series about SSDT and database project leveraging Visual Studio. We already know that SSDT can cover all objects but only on a...
2019-10-30
39 reads
Last Week Reading (2019-10-27)
Hello and good morning! We have Tuesday morning, which means I experienced a delay in this post. But finally, it is out and have a look at how much...
2019-10-29
20 reads
Last Week Reading (2019-10-20)
Hello folks! 2 weeks passed but eventually, I have some news for you. Press Support for Azure Databricks Instance pool for operationalizing Databricks workloads in Data Factory Public Preview...
2019-10-20
12 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #119 – What changes my mind
T-SQL Tuesday series (the monthly blog party) has been started by Adam Machanic and co-ordinated by Steve Jones. This month’s topic is hosted by my friend Alex Yates. He...
2019-10-08
16 reads
Last Week Reading (2019-10-06)
Hello Azure/Power/BI/Data fella! Another two weeks passed very quickly and the new edition of Community conference in the UK is about to begin. Check whether you can attend one...
2019-10-06
11 reads
ASF 025: Rob Farley interview
Introduction Rob Farley is a Microsoft Certified Master, Microsoft Certified Trainer and is a recipient of the Microsoft MVP Award for SQL Server since 2006. Rob provides consulting and...
2019-09-26
16 reads
Last Week Reading (2019-09-22)
Hello #datafolks! Let’s review what happened last week in Data World. It’s hard to admit but I missed last week’s post due to my visit to Sweden (SQLSaturday) and...
2019-09-22
11 reads
Last Week Reading (2019-09-08)
Hello all and welcome after my one month of my absence. What was I doing? Thank you for asking! I have been on holiday. ONE month of very relaxing,...
2019-09-08
21 reads
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