July SCSUG Meeting
First, I wanted to post a reminder that the July SCSUG meeting has been moved to this coming Monday, July...
2010-07-08
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Seth Phelabaum
June SCSUG Meeting Follow-up
This is a bit later than usual as the meeting was a week ago now, but I wanted to post...
2010-06-18
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SQL Spatial data for State/County shapes
I saw a Blog post by Grant Fritchey (Blog | Twitter) a couple days ago on using Geospatial data in SSRS...
2010-06-18
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2010 Goals – Q2 Review
Another quarter gone, and unfortunately I’m still looking about the same on goal progress. Still looking good on Blog posts...
2010-06-10
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T-SQL Tuesday #7: T-SQL Enhancements in SQL 2008.
In this edition of T-SQL Tuesday, Jorge Segarra (Blog | Twitter) asks us what our favorite new feature of SQL 2008...
2010-06-08
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Calculating ROI on Performance Tuning
Recently on the SSC forums, someone asked about how to measure the money in an actual dollar figure that they...
2010-06-02
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Create Indexes from the Missing Indexes DMV
Glenn Berry (Blog) writes a lot of queries to extract information from the system DMV’s. One of them in particular...
2010-05-24
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Upcoming May SCSUG Meeting
This coming Thursday is the SCSUG meeting. This is no normal meeting. Instead of the standard format of pizza/socialization followed...
2010-05-10
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2008 Upgrade Completed
Whew! So I've been super busy the past week and a half upgrading our production server from SQL 2000 to...
2010-04-26
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Reporting Services and Windows 7 Home Premium
Ok, continuing from my post last night about the ‘Run as Administrator’ bug in SSMS, here’s the other half of...
2010-04-13
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Blogs
RANK() vs DENSE_RANK(): #SQLNewBlogger
By Steve Jones
I haven’t done one of these in awhile, but I saw an article recently...
Using CAT for Testing of Data Agents
In last months one of the scenarios where you can use AI has been...
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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