Responding to a Disaster
A few recent disasters inspire Steve to remind you to prepare now, before a disaster occurs.
2024-08-02
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Editorials
2024-07-31 (first published: 2019-09-20)
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A Quick Turnaround
Steve has a quick turnaround between trips that was a bit unexpected. Is there compensation for this?
2024-07-29
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We Stink!
You know I have to say something about Crowdstrike. How could I not? Recovery for most people seems to be well in hand, but there are still places dealing with it. I was personally impacted because I was trying to fly home last Friday. While my airline and the airports I was flying through were […]
2024-07-27
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I may need to re-think the use of table variables
Table variables have been fixed in SQL 2019, so now I have to decide if I will use them again.
2024-07-26 (first published: 2018-12-11)
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Thinking About Technology
Steve is thinking about technology today, inspired by a developer/architect that asks some philosophical and moral questions of software.
2024-07-24
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The Biggest Database Professional Challenges Today
What are the biggest challenges you face today? Steve asks the question and is hoping for a few answers from you.
2024-07-22
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Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
I remember going to the theater over the Thanksgiving holiday in 1987 and seeing Planes, Trains, and Automobiles with Steve Martin and John Candy. My family didn’t often take in the holiday weekend movie releases, but Steve was a family favorite actor already, and friends had given it a good review. Having watched it just […]
2024-07-20
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A Programmer's Attitude
The way we approach development can have a big impact on quality, as well as how smoothly our team works together.
2024-07-19
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Cloud vs On-premises
Is the cloud better or worse for a workload? One company, BlueSky, has moved on-premises despite their rapidly growing workload.
2024-07-17
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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...
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