2014-12-04 (first published: 2014-11-17)
1,424 reads
William Talada
- Interests: non-dualism
2013-07-03 (first published: 2013-06-07)
885 reads
ASCII Character Groups in String
Powerful function to find strings containing or excluding classes of ASCII characters.
2012-09-10 (first published: 2012-08-28)
1,051 reads
Find botched constraints, idxs, fks
Shows awesome view of columns with constraints and indexes and foreign keys to spot errors fast.
2010-08-04 (first published: 2009-12-03)
1,463 reads
IsNumber fails cast while IsBigInt passes cast
IsNumber does weak checking and fails cast to BigInt so I wrote IsBigInt to replace it.
2010-06-11 (first published: 2010-05-05)
3,486 reads
Display Rows Vertically or Alphabetically
Display a row vertically when a table has hundreds of columns to avoid scrolling.
2010-01-21 (first published: 2009-12-30)
3,302 reads
datetime precision
Accuracy and precision go hand-in-hand. This script helps trim date values to whatever size is stored in a table's column.
2010-01-20 (first published: 2009-12-21)
1,498 reads
Implementing Most Recently Used Lookups
This script will adapt ordering of look-up lists by foreign key usage.
2010-01-18 (first published: 2009-12-23)
977 reads
Validate Deployed Databases by Version
Save all object definitions to a single stored procedure for easy validation
2010-01-14 (first published: 2009-12-18)
780 reads
2010-01-07 (first published: 2009-12-18)
1,721 reads
Blogs
Presenting with Visual Studio Code
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Advice I Like: In 100 Years
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RANK() vs DENSE_RANK(): #SQLNewBlogger
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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