Troublesome Names
Building a name-and-address database sounds a disarmingly simple task, but if your name happens to be D'Arcy Join, then you probably know, from painful experience, that most programmers don't get it right.
2018-03-12
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Editorial
2018-03-09
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2023-07-17 (first published: 2018-03-08)
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2018-03-07
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Predictions for the Future
Steve Jones looks forward with a few predictions for how the world might change for SQL Server professionals.
2018-03-06
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2018-03-05
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Decouple the Tools
The decoupling of some tools from SQL Server seems to be working. Perhaps Microsoft should decouple them all.
2018-03-05
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Audit systems: a good idea or a mess to maintain?
Audit systems can be a good idea, but they can also be a mess to maintain.
2022-05-30 (first published: 2018-02-27)
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2018-02-26
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What Counts for a DBA – Inspirations
In order to be great, you need to have an idea what great is. A quote I use in every one of my database design presentations is by one of my non-technical inspirations, C. S. Lewis. The quote is from his book, An Experiment in Criticism. “There are no variations except for those who know […]
2018-02-26
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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...
RANK() vs DENSE_RANK(): #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I haven’t done one of these in awhile, but I saw an article recently...
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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