2014-12-17
590 reads
Editorial
Go Small
The SQL Server community is amazing, and Steve Jones hopes we continue to be close as we grow. He brings light on an idea to grow us larger, but smaller.
2014-12-16
150 reads
2014-12-15
96 reads
Drop and Recreate
Steve Jones notes that disasters come in all shapes and sizes, but a little prep that you might not have thought of can reduce the scale of the issues.
2014-12-15
193 reads
The Last Job
Steve Jones contemplates employment and the future of the last job he'll have. This Friday he asks you if this might be yours.
2014-12-12
155 reads
Citizen Programmers
Steve Jones finds the Salesforce platform interesting and notes we have lots of "citizen programmers" doing work with data.
2014-12-11
140 reads
Managerial Moneyball
Steve Jones notes that the Moneyball phenomenon has come to managers and perhaps a little training and data can help find us better managers.
2018-07-26 (first published: 2014-12-10)
168 reads
Holiday Struggles
The sporadic schedule of a day or two a week this holiday season has been a struggle for Steve Jones.
2014-12-09
179 reads
Software Projects: the important boring bits
Phil Factor on the sort of boring expertise that will help you thrive as a consultant.
2014-12-08
138 reads
What Have You Learned Lately?
Have you learned anything new lately? Steve Jones asks the question after an interesting T-SQL Tuesday.
2014-12-04
162 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