Data Orchestration
Steve talks data virtualization in the age of growing data sets and larger workloads
2020-02-27
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Editorials
2020-02-26
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2020-02-25
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2020-02-22
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Self-selection Reteaming: It’s Not Crazy, It’s the Future
Today, Kendra Little talks about reteaming.
2020-02-21
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2020-02-20
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2020-02-19 (first published: 2019-03-14)
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Leveling up Core Skills: A Pattern for Launching an Internal Training Initiative
Today, Julia Hayward explains how Redgate is leveling up core skills.
2020-02-18
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2020-02-17
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A New World of Data
I started in the early days of SQL Server, when having a gigabyte of disk storage was unheard of, much less a gigabyte of RAM. My watch has more storage space than the mainframe we replaced with an early version of SQL Server years ago. The technical possibilities and amounts of data we are capable […]
2020-02-15
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Blogs
A bespoke reporting solution doesn’t have to cost the earth
By ChrisJenkins
You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...
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...
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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