Production Scripts
Many of us have scripts that we run in SQL Agent jobs, but Steve wonders if we really treat them like production code.
2018-02-12
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Editorial
What to Read in 2018
Steve loves to read all sorts of books and is asking what books you'd read professionally or for fun in 2018.
2018-02-09
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2022-05-27 (first published: 2018-02-08)
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2018-02-07
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Influence the Program
You have the opportunity to influence the makeup of the conference agenda for the PASS Summit
2018-02-06
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Finding the Right Data
Big Data hasn't been in the news, perhaps because more organizations are realizing they need the right data.
2018-02-05
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2018-02-05
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2018-02-01
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2018-01-31
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Lowering the Noise
We are busy as administrators, and it can be very useful to ensure our systems avoid adding to our workload.
2018-01-30
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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