Queries, Plans, and Indexes
Find indexes associated with queries and vice versa. Helps figure out what procedures are using indexes.
2008-11-18 (first published: 2008-07-31)
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Scripts
Backup And Restore Remain Time
Script to found out how much time before Restore or Backup Process remain
2008-11-17 (first published: 2008-09-30)
1,061 reads
Data extrapolation on the fly
Sometimes we need to generate the data based on a given date, to an end date (data extrapolation).
This is a easy way to do that without any temporary storage.
2008-11-14 (first published: 2008-09-25)
904 reads
Display SQL services information
This Script is used to display the SQL and windows services information
by using the Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line (WMIC),
2008-11-11 (first published: 2008-09-20)
1,377 reads
Yet Another Pad Utility
A useful user defined function for padding values from the left or right with any token, number, or character.
2008-11-07 (first published: 2008-09-13)
781 reads
2008-11-06 (first published: 2008-09-12)
1,001 reads
Get Record count of all tables of current database
This script will return record count of all user tables from the current database
2008-11-05
1,078 reads
Add Primary key
This Store procedure is used to add primary key to all tables in a database, if table does not contain it.
2008-11-04
980 reads
2008-11-04
1,953 reads
Delimited String Parsing Functions - TwoCol set
Feed it two delimited strings of horizontal data and it returns it back as a vertical table with the two column data in the same synchronized position order.
2008-11-03 (first published: 2008-08-05)
2,221 reads
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Missing the Jaro Winkler Distance
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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