Andy Warren

I started my SQL journey here at SQLServerCentral as one of the founders, helping to build a place to share and learn that continues to thrive under the editorial guidance of my friend Steve Jones. I've done a lot of volunteer work over the years ranging from our local SQL group (oPASS, SQLOrlando) to serving on the Board of Directors of PASS to designing and building the framework of SQLSaturday (which has gone on to produce more than 1000 locally managed events since we started in 2007). These days I manage a DBA team, but over the years I've been a trainer, consultant, contractor, and DBA. I'm rarely present on social media, the best way to contact me is here, LinkedIn, or via email.

Presenting at ONETUG on July 10, 2014

by Andy Warren

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I’ll be presenting SQL Performance for Developers to the members of ONETUG on July 10, 2014. I’m going to hit...

2014-05-20

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Running Out of Foreign Keys-Question of the Day

by Andy Warren

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Running Out of Foreign Keys is live today. Nothing too interesting about this one, a straight forward question where you...

2014-05-20

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Running Out Of Foreign Keys

by Andy Warren

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Foreign Keys (FK)

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2014-05-20

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Password Cracking–Part 2

by Andy Warren

SQLAndy

Two days felt like a long time, so we found a cloud server with 16 cores we could use. We...

2014-05-19

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Building The SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan–Part 8

by Andy Warren

SQLAndy

One of things I wish PASS provided was at least one template for an event flyer, something that is basically...

2014-05-18

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BASIC

by Andy Warren

SQLAndy

It might or might not surprise you that I learned to code in Basic. I suppose my first real attempt...

2014-05-16

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Statistics Parser

by Andy Warren

SQLAndy

A quick plug today for Statistics Parser by Richie Rump, a free web site that takes the output from “set...

2014-05-16

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Password Cracking–Part 1

by Andy Warren

SQLAndy

I’ve run into the not uncommon situation where there is a SQL login and no one seems to have the...

2014-05-15

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Peace Officers Memorial Day and Half Staff

by Andy Warren

SQLAndy

Today is Peace Officers Memorial Day and that’s why the flag is at half staff (Had to search, I didn’t...

2014-05-15

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Building the SQLSaturday Orlando Marketing Plan-Part 7

by Andy Warren

SQLAndy

Just spent some time re-reading my notes far and my ideas from before – glad I wrote them down, lots and...

2014-05-14

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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?

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