Staying High
Today we have a guest editorial from Tim Mitchell. Tim talks about the need to stay motivated in your career after an event ends.
2011-10-03
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Editorials
Closing Out Replies
This editorial was originally published on Oct 17, 2006. It is being republished as Steve is at SQLBits 9 today. Should we change the way we deal with posts and replies? Answer today.
2011-09-30
74 reads
What’s In Your (Junk) Drawers?
Today we have a guest editorial from Andy Warren. Andy talks today about he various items that collect around your work space. Are they useful? should you be cleaning things up? What does this say about you?
2011-09-29
117 reads
Bits Bound
Steve Jones talks about his trip to SQL Bits 9: Query Across the Mersey, which begins today.
2011-09-28
87 reads
Know when to hold 'em
It's time for the SQLServerCentral Party at PASS and Steve Jones talks about the event.
2011-09-27
79 reads
Probabilities and Disaster Recovery
Today Steve Jones talks about the probabilities of different types of disasters occurring in your enterprise. He reminds you that the effort spent on disaster recovery ought to be related to the cost of the disaster, and the risk of it actually occurring.
2011-09-26
217 reads
Where are all the MVBs?
Whereas there are plenty of experts prepared to help with the technology, few seem to come forward when the struggle is against the bureaucracy rather than a recalcitrant server. Where are all the SQL MVBs (Masters at Vanquishing Bureaucracy) when you need them!?
2011-09-26
138 reads
Big Gaps
Today Steve Jones talks about the gaps in our knowledge and our skill sets. He asks which things you think that all data professionals should be learning.
2011-09-23
364 reads
A Better Application Model
The AppStore model is one that Steve Jones likes, but he'd like to see it slightly more open over time and allow other companies to vet applications that users can then install on any system or device.
2011-09-22
105 reads
Data Quality on the Open Web
As we look to take more data from customers and clients and embed it in our applications, data quality becomes a bigger issue
2011-09-21
87 reads
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