This editorial was originally published on Mar 20, 2007. It is being republished as Steve Jones is on vacation. Today Steve Jones talks about going into business for yourself, and reminding you it's not as simple as it might seem.
2012-02-08
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Continuous improvement comes from measurement, analysis, and changes. Steve Jones talks about how we should be doing that with our data collection, analysis, and storage.
2012-02-07
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The biggest security threat always seems to come from insiders and today Steve Jones talks about the need to monitor your environment.
2012-02-06
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It seems inevitable that many customers will end up paying more to get the same features they have today, under the new SQL Server licencing model, unless they respond to Microsoft's creativity with some of their own.
2012-02-06
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2012-02-03
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Steve Jones learns a new trick working with T-SQL, and is surprised how easy it is. He recommends you work on updating your skills over time as well.
2012-02-02
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Steve Jones talks today about storage innovations from the large cloud vendors and how that can relate to your job as a database professional.
2012-02-01
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Would any of you want to track your morale at work and have your boss access the data anonymously? Steve Jones think it's a good tool, but one that is easily abused.
2012-01-30
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2012-01-30
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Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren. Today Andy suggests you try some new tools and see if you can increase your productivity.
2012-01-27
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A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
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Hi, i'm running vs2022. I'm trying out a c# script that i'd like to...
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