Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives – In Seattle
If you’re going to spend 3-5 days in Seattle at the PASS Summit it’s worth sampling the local food rather...
2009-10-29
1,749 reads
SQLAndy
More Seattle Food
Was browsing on a break and found this, http://www.seattle.com/dining/. Of them I’ve been to Palomino (good) and Ruths Chris (good),...
2009-10-29
751 reads
Need an Aircard for a Few Days?
Ran across this, http://daypasswireless.com/, lets you rent an aircard plus service. Don’t know if it’s too late for those of...
2009-10-29
640 reads
Featured Blogger: Aaron Bertrand
I’ve been reading Aaron’s blog for a while, he’s prolific and consistently interesting – and definitely a technical focus. He’s been...
2009-10-29
679 reads
Crazy Egg
I know, I should have put more in the title. Crazy Egg is a web page traffic analysis tool that...
2009-10-28
564 reads
My Schedule at the Summit/Let’s Connect
I’m flying out Sunday via Alaska Air, taking the direct flight from Orlando to Seattle, arriving at 11:40 am. If...
2009-10-27
1,200 reads
Annoyed with LinkedIn
Funny how tools can surprise you. I’ve had in mind to set up a sub-group and invite all the SQLSaturday...
2009-10-26
598 reads
My Eval Results from SQLSaturday #21
I presented Social and Not So Social Networking for the DBA. Of the attendees, 16 submitted an eval. Here are...
2009-10-25
553 reads
Business Cards – Again
I posted some thoughts on business cards awhile back, had used up the ones I had and was time to...
2009-10-25
677 reads
PASS Update #18
Eric Wisdahl posted some questions on my last update, and I thought I’d reply here to make my answers more...
2009-10-22
795 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