SQL Profanities
Do you avoid certain SQL functionality because you have been told you should NEVER use it?
2008-08-11
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Editorial - iPod
The Starting Point
The Mojave Experiment is a marketing effort by Microsoft that is very interesting in looking at first impressions. Steve Jones comments.
2008-08-10
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Bill Baker - Database Weekly (Aug 11, 2008)
This weeks Database Weekly looks at a longtime leader for the Microsoft SQL Server development team leaving the company.
2008-08-08
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2008-08-06
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2008-08-06
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2008-08-05
60 reads
Un-retiring
Would you leave technology and come back to it as a career? It seems that many people are afraid of doing it, but Steve Jones talks about why it shouldn't matter.
2008-08-04
75 reads
Pimp My Data Center
Steve Jones talks about the changing capabilities and flexibilities of data centers as technologies change.
2008-08-03
67 reads
Infinite Seizure - Database Weekly (2008/8/4)
This week's Database Weekly editorial examines the US policy of potentially seizing laptops for an infinite period when you enter the country.
2008-08-02
531 reads
Social Profiling
This Friday Steve Jones talks about the social networking phenomenon and asks how it should affect your career?
2008-07-31
62 reads
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...
Forums
Missing the Jaro Winkler Distance
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25 Years Later: What SQLServerCentral Meant to Me
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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