A Short Hiatus - WaterOx Consulting
Reading Time: 1 minutesGoing to get Digby access to a little more water to rest...
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2015-06-10
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006 – Personal Trainer - WaterOx Consulting
Reading Time: 5 minutesDo You Have a Personal Trainer? In WOxPod!, episode # 006 –...
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2015-06-05
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Blacklist a Set of IPs - WaterOx Consulting
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe talked about whitelisting IPs before, but what about the opposite, blacklisting...
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2015-06-03
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005 – Antiques Roadshow - WaterOx Consulting
Reading Time: 4 minutesAre You Running An Antiques Roadshow? In WOxPod!, episode # 005 –...
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2015-05-29
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SQL F.A.D. – CSV List of Columns - WaterOx Consulting
Reading Time: 2 minutesI had a project once that was using change data capture (CDC)...
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2015-05-27
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004 – Cracked Foundation - WaterOx Consulting
Reading Time: 4 minutesDo You Have a Cracked Foundation? in WOxPod!, episode # 004 –...
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2015-05-22
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SQL F.A.D. – Daily Identity Reset - WaterOx Consulting
Reading Time: 3 minutesSometimes you have to do some things considered pretty strange in your...
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2015-05-20
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003 – The Data Guild - WaterOx Consulting
Reading Time: 5 minutesAre you an Apprentice DBA? in WOxPod!, episode # 003 – The...
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2015-05-15
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SQL F.A.D. – Average Transactions Per Day - WaterOx Consulting
Reading Time: 2 minutesSometimes Fast & Dirty is OK. Other times, not so much. Sometimes...
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2015-05-25 (first published: 2015-05-13)
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002 – SQL Server 2016 - WaterOx Consulting
Reading Time: 1 minutesIt is official! The next version of SQL Server will be SQL...
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2015-05-08
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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