I’m Speaking at SQL Saturday Oregon
I am honored to have been selected to speak at SQL Saturday Oregon this year. They always have so many sessions submitted with only 40 slots available. I was...
2019-10-29
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SQL Swimmer
Updated Data Profiling in Power BI Desktop
In this month’s (October 2019) release of Power BI Desktop, they have added a ton of cool stuff, you can read all about it via the Power BI Blog. ...
2019-10-22 (first published: 2019-10-15)
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September on the Road
I am so excited for the next three weeks. This is a trip that has been in the planning for nearly 2 years. I have always loved travelling and...
2019-09-01
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Renewed As A Microsoft Data Platform MVP
I am so excited and honored to have been awarded my second Data Platform MVP from Microsoft on Monday. It’s been a crazy busy 18 months and the next...
2019-07-03
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Speaking at SQL Saturday Raleigh
I am happy to announce that I will be speaking at SQL Saturday Raleigh this Saturday, April 27, 2019. I have been part of the organizing team for this...
2019-04-22
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My Very First Azure SQL Database
I recently delivered my very first SQL Saturday pre-con for SQL Saturday Richmond on Friday, March 29, 2019. You can read about that adventure here. As part of the...
2019-04-08
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Delivering My First Pre-Con
I didn’t announce this before it happened because I didn’t want to “jinx” myself, but I am happy to say that it’s finally happened. I have delivered my very...
2019-04-06
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Using Power BI To Track My Activities
As a MS MVP one of the things you have to do is keep track of all the “things” you...
2019-02-20
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Using Power BI To Track My Activities
As a MS MVP one of the things you have to do is keep track of all the “things” you do for community, whether it be volunteering, organizing, speaking,...
2019-02-20
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Speaking at SQL Saturday Chicago
I am so excited and honored to announce that I have been selected to speak at SQL Saturday Chicago on...
2019-02-15
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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...
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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