As I looking at the feed of technology stories this week, two things jumped out at me. First, Valentine's day happened to fall on the monthly release day for Microsoft updates and feature previews. If you work with Azure services, specifically in the data platform space, there are a lot of update announcements to work […]
2023-02-18
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Do you have a set of practices for building software in your organization?
2023-02-17
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Basecamp is leaving the cloud and Steve thinks it's a good decision. He also thinks the cloud can work very well for organizations.
2023-02-15
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I saw this tweet recently, where Richie Rump asked what has changed in T-SQL since the SQL Server 2012 version. A few people from Microsoft responded that there were changes in all versions, and while I think some versions have few changes, I decided to look. SQL Server 2012 introduced the window functions with the […]
2023-02-13
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Yesterday, I had the opportunity, and the privilege, to attend an all-day workshop put on by Bob Ward teaching all about SQL Server 2022 (you can take this too, Bob is presenting it at SQLSaturday Austin and SQL Bits, and there will be more). It was a great day. Bob is an excellent teacher. Even […]
2023-02-11
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Helping your business get value from a digital transformation can start within your own team or group.
2023-02-08
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2023-02-06 (first published: 2023-02-04)
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Fear and aging. Two of the things that most human beings have in common is that we are scared and getting older. Most of us we fear getting older, but that is a very different conversation altogether. I want to talk about the fear of what if. Today I have two things I am keenly […]
2023-02-06 (first published: 2023-01-28)
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When I first started working in technology in the 90s, it was a time of outsourcing lots of work overseas. Many large companies followed the wave of manufacturing in the 70s and 80s by many companies, including lots of semi-conductor manufacturers. I watched as a number of jobs moved overseas, though fortunately not mine. In […]
2023-02-06
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We need to monitor our servers, but individual metrics have more complexity than just setting simple limits for their readings.
2023-02-06 (first published: 2023-01-30)
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A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
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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