How are you recharging this year?
Steve Jones asks about your plans to get away from work and refresh yourself.
2018-06-29
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Editorials
String or binary data would be truncated
This is an error that has plagued SQL Server for a long time. It should be fixed.
2018-06-28
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When Work Gets in the Way of Work
Work sometimes gets in the way of work. Steve Jones notes this can cause stress and problems over time.
2018-06-27 (first published: 2014-10-21)
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2018-06-26 (first published: 2015-04-14)
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2018-06-25 (first published: 2015-02-13)
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2018-06-25
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Common Mistakes
This week Steve Jones is wondering what the common mistakes that T-SQL developers make are.
2018-06-22 (first published: 2015-03-20)
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2018-06-21
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Release Wednesday
One of the teams at Red Gate is releasing new changes every Wednesday, which reminds Steve Jones of a time earlier in his career.
2018-06-20 (first published: 2015-04-08)
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After Six Months On The Job What Challenges Remain?
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren that asks what you might do when you get settled at a new job.
2018-06-19 (first published: 2015-04-10)
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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