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Merge outputs of perfmon and profiler to get a great view

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by Harsh Mishra

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INTRODUCTION
Statistics contain information about the data. How the data is distributed inside the table. They are representation of a table....

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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')

Msg 195, Level 15, State 10, Line 1 'JARO_WINKLER_DISTANCE' is not a recognized built-in function name.

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