Communicate Smarter Not More
After installing Microsoft Teams, Steve has a bit of communication overload.
2019-05-13
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Editorials
2019-05-11
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The Impediments to Change
SQL Server is releasing a new version of the engine every 12-24 months at this point. That puts pressure on all of us to learn constantly about the changes. Even if we don't look to upgrade all of our existing instances, we can't buy older versions when the new one is released. Often many of […]
2019-05-10
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The Death of the GDPR
The GDPR is struggling with enforcement against some of the larger tech companies. Steve thinks this is a problem, but it might not matter for smaller companies.
2019-05-09
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Default Backups and Feature Awareness
Default backup schemes for databases would be a nice enhancement.
2019-05-08
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A Double Failure
A company has both a server without a password and live data in test environments. Not a good situation.
2019-05-07
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Really Important Software
Software often controls hardware, which can make it the critical part of a system. That's something we should be learning from the Boeing 737-Max crashes.
2019-05-06
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The Blast Radius of a database
Phil Factor feels that the database gets the short shrift in any outage - it's time to stop saying "the database has gone down" and time to start thinking about the resilience of the entire system.
2019-05-04
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Serverless
The idea of serverless computing is interesting, and with Azure Stack, might be something more of us embrace.
2019-05-02
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Are you a Data Scientist?
A data scientist needs some specialized skills. Today Steve Jones talks a bit about the requirements to be good at this job.
2019-05-01 (first published: 2015-09-29)
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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...
dataMinds Saturday 2026 – Slides
At Saturday the 21st of February I’m presenting an introduction to dimensional modelling at...
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