Data Mining Part 17: Working with Reports
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The 10 (.5) Commandments for IT Professionals
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Azure Virtual Machines Part 0: A VM Primer
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A Dearth of Comments
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The Mindset of the Enterprise DBA: Harnessing the Power of Automation
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The Ins and outs of In-Memory OLTP
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The Need for Auditing
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Comparing SQL Server Datatypes, Size and Performance for Storing Numbers
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Another Way to Look at Trees
An alternative to tree traversal, and ultimately more efficient way to look at organizational structures is presented.
Swallowing the Camel
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Missing the Jaro Winkler Distance
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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