MVP Deep Dives 2 – Pre-Order
Every couple days, I’ve been checking for it and finally tonight I saw that the upcoming edition of SQL Server...
2011-09-22
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StrateSQL
SQL Saturday in Kalamazoo This Weekend
If you are going to be in Kalamazoo this weekend and don’t have anything planned. Because, yeah, that happens. Or...
2011-09-13
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PASS 2011 Countdown – 4 Weeks To Go
One week down and we are now 4-weeks from this years PASS Summit. Hopefully, you have already registered for the...
2011-09-12
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September Monthly SQL Server Checklist
First day of the month and first Tuesday of the month. Yup, the list is late this month because for...
2011-09-06
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PASSMN September Meeting Announced
It’s time to start looking deeper at the next release of SQL Server. As such, the September PASSMN meeting will...
2011-09-06
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PASS 2011 Countdown – 5 Weeks To Go
We are now 5-weeks from this years PASS Summit. It’s time to start getting ready for the event. Hopefully, you...
2011-09-05
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PASSion Award Nominations
PASSion Award
One of the things that makes PASS a successful organization is the volunteers. To show it’s appreciation for these...
2011-09-04
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Re-blog – August 26-September 1
As I mentioned in the introductory post, I’m summarizing posts from previous years in the the past week. Some posts...
2011-09-02
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Book Status #1: Indexing for Performance
As some of you may know, I am writing a book on indexing. So far I’ve written and submitted four...
2011-08-31
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Re-blog – August 19-August 25
As I mentioned in the introductory post, I’m summarizing posts from previous years in the the past week. Some posts...
2011-08-26
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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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Doing Good at SQL Server Central
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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