The Products-Often-Purchased-Together Problem Solved in R
Learn how to analysis products that might be sold together using R and SQL Server.
2020-05-19
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Alex Chamchourine
An Introduction to PowerShell for a DBA
An introduction to PowerShell that covers basics alone with some more advanced features. It will walk you through from the very beginning to the writing of a few useful scripts.
2020-05-01 (first published: 2017-12-21)
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A quick search without an index
Alex Chamchourine explains how he managed to find a row in a billion row table without an index.
2020-02-14
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A Lightweight, Self-adjusting, Baseline-less Data Monitor
Can data alert us that something is going on, without baselines and thresholds?
2017-10-13 (first published: 2016-02-23)
4,143 reads
2017-02-21
1,279 reads
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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