2022-03-23
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Misc
2021-12-24
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2021-12-17
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The Future of the Internet and Data
What's the future of the Internet? A lot might depend on how we decide to value and handle data.
2021-10-29
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Live Your Life
On this holiday in the US, Steve reminds us that living a life we want and enjoy isn't something we should delay for the future.
2021-09-06
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The Second Half of 2021
July is starting, and with it we move to the second half of 2021, or H2 2021 for those of you that like the planning shorthand on roadmaps and project manager boards. The first half of 2021 has felt like a big of progress in the world, as we try to recover from the pandemic […]
2021-07-05
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Growing Outside of the English World
The world is bigger than one country, and Steve is trying to remember that.
2021-04-07
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2020-12-31
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2020-12-30
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Merry Christmas 2020
Merry Christmas today. Happy Holidays to all of you, for whichever holiday you celebrate this time of year. It's been a long, hard year, but I hope you are healthy and happy as we close out 2020. Hopefully next year is more enjoyable for all of us.
2020-12-25
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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...
Forums
is it true we cant debug c# scripts in ssis anymore under vs
Hi, i'm running vs2022. I'm trying out a c# script that i'd like to...
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