See how our end-to-end framework for extending DevOps to your database enables your organization to balance the demand to deliver software fast with the need to protect and preserve business critical data.
Learn how to use statistical functions in Python with data from a SQL Server database along with several different examples.
Learn how Splunk can be used to get information from application logs or a SQL Server database.
One of the sales managers at Redgate Software posted an origin story about how he came to work at Redgate Software. It's an interesting story, and while I don't work in sales or have the same origin story, I don't know that I could have seen the place I'm in now early in my career. […]
Flyway, especially Flyway Teams edition, can be used in several different ways to accommodate a database development that was originally based on builds rather than migrations. This article explores four different ways to use Flyway to build a particular version of a database, from the ground up, using a single migration script. It should help teams select the best way to incorporate Flyway into an existing database build system, during development, while benefitting from use of Flyway's versioned migration system for deployments and releases.
In this article, we look at how to mask/hide data for users using Dynamic Data Masking in SQL Server and Data Redaction in Oracle
In this article, we will learn how to set up Azure SQL VM AOAG based on Windows Server 2019 Failover Cluster step-by-step, it is a detailed supplement to the Microsoft official articles and it is a beginner's guide for people who have no experience to do that, please read this article closely with Mircosoft's guide: […]
Grant takes a few lessons for database DR from a nuclear accident in the US.
Here's why you should NEVER use the FORMAT() function in SQL Server.
Microsoft reads your feedback, but doesn't always build it. However, your votes can sway them at times. Today Steve asks what you'd like to see added to SQL Server.
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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