Book Review: The Cleaner
I read The Deceived a few weeks back and enjoyed it, even though it was the 2nd book in the...
2009-11-19
499 reads
SQLAndy
Professional Extrovert, Private Introvert
I’ve had this on my list of things to talk about someday, a recent post on almost the same subject...
2009-11-18
599 reads
PASS Update #19 (SQL Server Standard)
In a recent blog post Brent Ozar questioned why PASS decided to relaunch the SQL Server Standard given the failure...
2009-11-17
747 reads
Fighting the Flu
Last Monday was my first day back from the PASS Summit, planned for (and was) a slow day, just starting...
2009-11-16
497 reads
Hot Sauce Links
New friend David Easley shared two sources for hot sauce that I wasn’t familiar with:
http://www.datilsensation.com/products.shtmlhttp://www.pepperpalace.com/I like some spice here and...
2009-11-15
527 reads
Book Review: The Machine, The Story of the 1975 Cincinnati Reds
I grew up watching baseball on TV and playing it too, and for reasons I don’t recall my Dad’s favorite...
2009-11-12
538 reads
Planning a Longer Break Soon
I’m sure you know what I mean when I say that I feel like my ability to task switch and...
2009-11-11
480 reads
Better Than a Business Card?
A few weeks ago I was looking for a few branded items, happened to run across drink coasters at 4imprint....
2009-11-11
582 reads
Time Management Quotes
A short post today, ran across http://www.lifeoptimizer.org/2007/03/08/66-best-quotes-on-time-management/ when I was looking for ideas for my Moo cards. Quotes are fun...
2009-11-10
489 reads
Closing Out PASS Summit 2009
I was up early again on Friday morning to have breakfast with Patrick Leblanc (SQLLunch man), and then off to...
2009-11-09
623 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