2021-10-08
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Database Design
Much Ado about nothing: missing data
Joe Celko explains how missing data is handled from the printing press to databases.
2021-07-26
Constraints and declarative referential integrity
Database systems have powerful features built right in that can ensure the integrity of data. In this article, Joe Celko discusses keys and constraints.
2021-05-28
Creating Database Build Artifacts when Running Flyway Migrations
This article provides PowerShell automation scripts for running Flyway database migrations. These scripts use SQL Compare to automatically generate all the required database build artifacts in the version control system, for each Flyway deployment.
2021-04-26
Customizing Database Deployments using Flyway Callbacks and Placeholders
How to customize a database deployment process using Flyway, demonstrating how to incorporate tasks such stamping a version number into the latest database build, or writing to the SQL Server log.
2021-02-26
Implementation of Normalization in SQL Server
Introduction In my last article, Discussion on Normalization and Database Design Concepts, I discussed about the normalization concepts. Here, I will take one table in SQL Server and implement different normal forms. As we move up the higher normal forms, we end up on more number of tables. Implementation of Normal Forms Let us start […]
2021-02-22
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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