Execution Plan Shortcoming in Extended Events
I use Extended Events almost exclusively for capturing query metrics. They are the most consistent and lowest cost mechanism for...
2018-04-26 (first published: 2018-04-16)
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The Scary DBA
Privacy and Protection, By Design
With all the noise about the upcoming enforcement of GDPR, I know that people are starting to focus more on...
2018-04-11
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GDPR, Database Backups, and the Right to be Forgotten
I’ve said it before, but it bears repeating, there is no cause for any kind of panic when it comes...
2018-04-20 (first published: 2018-04-09)
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Buggy Whips 2.0
I recently found myself rereading a very old blog post of mine, from the very beginning of this blog, discussing...
2018-04-02
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YouTube Channel Update: March 30, 2018
Hey everyone!
Here’s the latest stuff on my new YouTube Channel. Please let me know if these videos are helpful. Also,...
2018-03-30
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Query Store and Automated Cleanup
Query Store has mechanisms for automatically cleaning your data. It is possible to cause them to break down. While presenting...
2018-03-26
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Query Monitoring and the GDPR
I’ve been reading the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and discussing the ramifications of the beginning of enforcement with lots...
2018-03-28 (first published: 2018-03-19)
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Execution Plans and the GDPR
What? Execution plans and the GDPR? Is this it? Have I completely lost it? Well, no, not on this topic,...
2018-03-12
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Every Single Execution Plan is an Estimated Plan
All the execution plans are estimated plans. All of them. There fundamentally isn’t any such thing as an “Actual” plan.
Where...
2018-03-14 (first published: 2018-03-05)
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YouTube Channel Update
Hey! Here’s the latest on my YouTube Channel. Click on through and subscribe. I’ll be doing lots of stuff on...
2018-03-02
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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