SQL Server Pro Article: Custom Programming to Enhance SSRS Reports
I’m very excited to see my first feature article published in SQL Server Pro Magazine titled Custom Programming to Enhance...
2013-07-02
915 reads
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Book Review: Instant Creating Data Models with PowerPivot How-to
I recently had the opportunity to review a pre-published copy of the “Instant” series book “Creating Data Models with PowerPivot...
2013-06-13
590 reads
Time to Complete the 2013 BI Survey
It’s that time of year again… end of the school year, graduation, Fathers’ Day and of course; time to take...
2013-06-10
500 reads
Taking the Tabular Journey
A Getting-Started and Survival Guide for planning, designing and building Tabular Semantic Models with Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Analysis Services....
2013-06-02
784 reads
Mastering Reporting Services Expressions, March 26
As part of SQL Server Pro eLearning series, I’ll be presenting three 75 minute sessions on March 26th on using...
2013-03-15
794 reads
Visual Studio 2012/SSDT Addition for BI Project Version Compatibility & Themes
We can now use Visual Studio 2012 to create and edit SQL Server BI projects! Woo Hoo. In the past,...
2013-03-08
1,087 reads
SQL Server Community World Tour with GeoFlow
When I started playing with GeoFlow, I just had to find a way to do something interesting with it. This...
2013-03-06
703 reads
Speaking at the Business Analytics Conference, April 1-12 in Chicago
The email message earlier today said “Please note that the official schedule will be released tomorrow, February 6th, so please...
2013-02-06
685 reads
Database Lifecycle Management for Azure SQL Database
DLM 1.0 Released Today When “SQL Azure” first became available a couple of years ago, I played with it, created...
2013-02-01
1,930 reads
Reporting Services 2012 BI Training
Just wanted to get the word out that our SSRS 2012 training course is available. Are you looking for expert...
2012-12-10
1,535 reads
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