Monday Morning SQL Break – June 13, 2016
Usually on my Monday posts, I include a pretty bland cookie cutter header. Nothing to extravagant, just an introduction. It’s...
2016-06-13
759 reads
StrateSQL
How To Get A Free SQL Server Indexing Book – Week 2
Free Book!
Another free indexing books, more awesome!
In last week’s post, I talked about how I’ve got a number of copies...
2016-06-10
931 reads
How To Get A Free SQL Server Indexing Book – Week 2
Free Book! Another free indexing books, more awesome! In last week’s post, I talked about how I’ve got a number of copies of Expert Performance Indexing for SQL Server;...
2016-06-10
4 reads
Book Review: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, by Yuval Harari, made it on my reading list after hearing about Mark Zuckerberg’s...
2016-06-08
824 reads
Book Review: Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, by Yuval Harari, made it on my reading list after hearing about Mark Zuckerberg’s list of books everyone should read. And since then,...
2016-06-08
5 reads
Monday Morning SQL Break – June 6, 2016
It’s Monday time for this week’s Monday Morning SQL Break. A chance to catch up on links I’ve shared and...
2016-06-06
417 reads
How To Get A Free SQL Server Indexing Book – Week 1
Free indexing books, awesome!
Before I tell you how, lets start with what we are talking about here. If you weren’t...
2016-06-03
476 reads
How To Get A Free SQL Server Indexing Book – Week 1
Free indexing books, awesome! Before I tell you how, lets start with what we are talking about here. If you weren’t aware, last summer I worked with Grant Fritchey...
2016-06-03
6 reads
Why Do I Write? And Should I Continue?
It’s been about six months now since my career to a sharp right turn. At the request of my kids,...
2016-06-02
372 reads
Why Do I Write? And Should I Continue?
It’s been about six months now since my career to a sharp right turn. At the request of my kids, I left a decade of consulting for a role...
2016-06-02
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