2008-12-08
488 reads
Editorial - iPod
Getting Close to Physical - Database Weekly (Nov 8, 2008)
The performance of virtual machines is getting closer and closer to that of physical machines with better software like Hyper-V.
2008-12-06
732 reads
Data Vices
Steve Jones asks about what you might change about yourself at work for this Friday's poll.
2008-12-04
71 reads
Just Keep Going and Going and Going
The upgrade treadmill might hit you in ways that you didn't expect.
2008-12-03
83 reads
The Energizer Bunny
Energizer, one of the world's leading battery manufacturers, is looking to have Microsoft host much of their infrastructure.
2008-12-02
508 reads
2008-12-01
927 reads
The Ebb and Flow of Community
Phil Factor talks a bit about the SQLServerCentral community and how we all get something different from it.
2008-11-26
525 reads
2008-11-26
641 reads
2008-11-25
510 reads
Budgeting
A bit of a rant today from Steve Jones after running into a situation that seems to make no sense these days.
2008-11-24
511 reads
Blogs
A bespoke reporting solution doesn’t have to cost the earth
By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
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...
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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