DBAs – soon to disappear??
Heres a thought
With all the monitoring tools and performance gauging software available on the market these days, will there ever...
2010-05-07
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Justin H-Davies
Log Shipping Problem
Log Shipping Issue (encountered by Abi Chapagai May 7th)
I had set up log shipping between two servers few weeks ago....
2010-05-07
7,602 reads
Daily SQL Server 2008 New Feature
Every day for the next couple of weeks, I aim to highlight one of SQL Server 2008’s new features, simply...
2010-05-06
576 reads
Script of the week
Every week I will scour the internet for useful SQL scripts and post my favorite on here.
This weeks comes from...
2010-04-23
392 reads
SQL Server 2008 R2 reaches RTM
On April 21 Microsoft announced SQL Server 2008 R2 has been released to manufacturing.
The downloads on Technet/MSDN on May 3....
2010-04-22
403 reads
SQL Server Agent
Found out this week – that we should be restarting this service at least once a week ! (thus allowing the CPU...
2010-04-20
379 reads
Difference between log shipping and database mirroring
Compiled by Abi Chapagai (April 2010)
Implementation of High Availability depends in the need of the business. Each of the technologies...
2010-04-18
24,373 reads
SQL Server 2008 Database Mirroring – Abi Chapagai
Introduction
In any distributed environment, database synchronization between two different locations or different servers’ is very essential for mission critical applications....
2010-04-18
2,246 reads
SQL Log Shipping – by Abi Chapagai
SQL Server 2008 High Availability Solution: Log Shipping
In SQL Server, transaction log provides an ability to recover a database...
2010-03-19
1,697 reads
Self-Managed Oracle Databases – Good or Bad ?!
Should we as DBAs be worried that we will become surplus to requirements if Oracle continues to enhance its capabilities to deliver a self-managing...
2010-02-23
384 reads
Blogs
Presenting with Visual Studio Code
A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...
Advice I Like: In 100 Years
By Steve Jones
In 100 years a lot of what we take to be true now will...
dataMinds Saturday 2026 – Slides
At Saturday the 21st of February I’m presenting an introduction to dimensional modelling at...
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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