Feb 2011 S3OLV Meeting
I am getting this out extremely late. I seriously have good excuses for that. Due to my location and Charley...
2011-02-09
341 reads
SQL RNNR
Feb 2011 S3OLV Meeting
I am getting this out extremely late. I seriously have good excuses for that. Due to my location and Charley feeling ill, we will be doing the S3OLV UG...
2011-02-09
2 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #15 DBA Automaton
I have been incognito for the last couple of weeks and nearly missed TSQL Tuesday this month. If it weren’t...
2011-02-09
822 reads
T-SQL Tuesday #15 DBA Automaton
Often, we hear about DBA's automating everything under the sun. Why? It simplifies the job and creates time to work on other projects.
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2011-02-09
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Immersions Training
The last week of January 2011, I wrote a blog post entering a contest for free training at the hands...
2011-02-08
538 reads
Immersions Training
The last week of January 2011, I wrote a blog post entering a contest for free training at the hands of SQLSkills. Later that week an announcement was made...
2011-02-08
4 reads
Immersion in Internals
Paul Randal (Blog | Twitter) and Kimberly Tripp (Blog | Twitter) of SQLSkills are hosting an Immersions training event in Dallas. This is not...
2011-01-26
972 reads
Immersion in Internals
Paul Randal (Blog | Twitter) and Kimberly Tripp (Blog | Twitter) of SQLSkills are hosting an Immersions training event in Dallas. This is not run of the mill training, but it...
2011-01-26
5 reads
The Lost Hero – A review
With what looks to be five books planned in a new series by Rick Riordan, people have some good fantasy...
2011-01-25
544 reads
The Lost Hero – A review
With what looks to be five books planned in a new series by Rick Riordan, people have some good fantasy ahead of them. I just finished the first installment...
2011-01-25
4 reads
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...
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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