SQL Server Management Data Warehouse (MDW) – Why it Rocks
Ensuring excellent performance for users and customers is a high priority for Database Administrators.
Today I want to share a free and easy...
2013-04-16
2,488 reads
John Sansom
SQL Server Management Data Warehouse (MDW) – Why it Rocks
Ensuring excellent performance for users and customers is a high priority for Database Administrators.
Here I share a free and easy way for you to get valuable insight into the...
2013-04-16
142 reads
Implicit Conversions and Avoiding Them With Computed Columns
I recently encountered an interesting performance issue (due to implicit conversions) that I was able to solve using a lesser known...
2013-04-02 (first published: 2013-03-25)
3,966 reads
Implicit Conversions and Avoiding Them With Computed Columns
I recently encountered an interesting performance issue (due to implicit conversions) that I was able to solve using a lesser known technique and I wanted to share it with...
2013-03-25
28 reads
How To Be An Expert At What You Do
Every successful company has them. They’re the lifeblood of their organisations. Linchpins essential to getting things done and doing them...
2013-03-20
1,041 reads
Career Growth and How You Can Achieve Explosive Results
Continued investment in your professional development for career growth is hard. It’s also essential to being a successful Data Professional.
You’ve...
2013-03-05
1,510 reads
Something for the Weekend – SQL Server Links 01/03/13
It’s SFTW Time, I hope you’ve had a great week!
Make sure you don’t miss this weekly round-up of SQL Server...
2013-03-01
1,068 reads
Restart the SQL Server Agent Service using PowerShell
Just a quick one today chaps, to show how you can restart the SQL Server Agent Service using PowerShell.
Whilst covering...
2013-02-26
4,859 reads
Multitasking A Ridiculous Workload – How I Do It
I don’t! There’s no such thing as multitasking. At least, not how most of us think about it……
Being successful as...
2013-02-19
960 reads
Overconfidence – How it Almost Cost Me and What You Can Do to Avoid It
It was early one morning and I was working on a production deployment to add a new Subscriber to an...
2013-02-15 (first published: 2013-02-05)
3,767 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