Monitoring Your Databases and Servers and…
You absolutely need to know about the servers you have under management in your estate. You need to know about the databases. Uptime, performance, behaviors, errors, corruption and a...
2019-03-19
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The Scary DBA
Compliance Ain’t Easy
I’m sure by now you’ve heard of the GDPR and some of the large scale data breaches that have occurred...
2019-03-18
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Compliance Ain’t Easy
I’m sure by now you’ve heard of the GDPR and some of the large scale data breaches that have occurred within it. If you haven’t heard of the GDPR,...
2019-03-18
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Database Development Gone Wrong
I recently shared a story about how I was personally responsible for a development project going off the rails (and...
2019-03-13
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Database Development Gone Wrong
I recently shared a story about how I was personally responsible for a development project going off the rails (and oh boy, did it go off the rails). It’s...
2019-03-13
4 reads
Missing Indexes in the Query Store
I’ve shown before how to use the DMVs that read the plan cache as a way to connect the missing...
2019-03-22 (first published: 2019-03-11)
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Missing Indexes in the Query Store
I’ve shown before how to use the DMVs that read the plan cache as a way to connect the missing indexes suggestions with specific queries, but the other place...
2019-03-11
24 reads
system_health Extended Events in Azure SQL Database
The system_health Extended Events session is incredibly useful. Further, it’s running, by default, in every server you have under management...
2019-03-04
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system_health Extended Events in Azure SQL Database
The system_health Extended Events session is incredibly useful. Further, it’s running, by default, in every server you have under management that is 2008 or greater. Things are not the...
2019-03-04
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How Do You Export A Database in Azure Data Studio
I’ve been writing a bunch about Azure Data Studio. I’ve also been recording videos on the topic. A comment I...
2019-03-13 (first published: 2019-02-25)
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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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Missing the Jaro Winkler Distance
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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