Security Disclosure
Did your company lose data last year? It can be hard to know, especially when even laws designed to ensure breaches are reported have loopholes. Steve Jones thinks this is a bad idea.
2010-08-09
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Editorial
Inception
Inspired by the movie with the same name, Steve Jones has a Friday poll about inspiration and ideas.
2015-02-06 (first published: 2010-08-06)
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Counting Servers
Which big tech company has the most servers? It doesn't matter, but how you show the data can matter. Steve Jones talks about a skill data professionals should develop.
2010-08-04
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Keeping Fresh
Today Steve Jones talks about how you might be able to help keep your employees excited and happy with their jobs.
2010-08-03
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Houston, we have a problem
Phil Factor takes a sideways look at Houston, a new tool for building SQL Azure applications, and is somewhat underwhelmed by what he finds.
2010-08-02
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Snoops
A survey shows the majority of IT administrators have snooped for data on their networks. Steve Jones reminds us to be professionals, each and every day.
2010-08-02
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2010-07-30
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Feedback for IT
Steve Jones thinks we should be building feedback loops into all our systems. Not just for customer service, but also for bugs.
2010-07-29
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Prevent Outsourcing
Outsourcing is a fact of life, but with the economic issues worldwide, it has also slowed. That will change eventually and Steve Jones has some thoughts about what you can do to prevent it for your job.
2010-07-28
288 reads
High End or Low End
Steve Jones talks about the need to perhaps get more depth and breadth to the information that we present at events like SQL Saturday to help people learn at all levels.
2010-07-27
165 reads
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...
Forums
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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