Monday Morning SQL Break – July 11, 2016
It’s Monday and time for this week’s blog and twitter round-up for last week. I spent the weekend with family...
2016-07-11
872 reads
StrateSQL
SQL Server Indexing Book Giveaway – Week 5
It’s time for week 5 of giving out some copies of Expert Performance Indexing for SQL Server. So far, I’ve sent...
2016-07-05
676 reads
SQL Server Indexing Book Giveaway – Week 5
It’s time for week 5 of giving out some copies of Expert Performance Indexing for SQL Server. So far, I’ve sent out four copies of the book based on comments from...
2016-07-05
7 reads
Tuesday Morning SQL Break – July 5, 2016
Yesterday was a holiday here in the United States, so I’m starting the week on Tuesday. For those in the...
2016-07-05
805 reads
Monday Morning SQL Break – June 27, 2016
The best way to make the most of the week is to set your goals. One of the things I...
2016-06-27
888 reads
SQL Server Indexing Book Giveaway – Week 4 (the late edition)
So… it’s Saturday night and I missed getting this out on Friday morning…
But, in past three weeks’ posts (1, 2, 3),...
2016-06-26
724 reads
SQL Server Indexing Book Giveaway – Week 4 (the late edition)
So… it’s Saturday night and I missed getting this out on Friday morning… But, in past three weeks’ posts (1, 2, 3), I talked about how I’ve got a few copies...
2016-06-26
6 reads
Monday Morning SQL Break – June 20, 2016
It’s Monday time for this week’s weekly blog and twitter round-up for last week. If you haven’t already, follow me...
2016-06-20
872 reads
SQL Server Indexing Book Giveaway – Week 3
In past two weeks’ posts (1, 2) I talked about how I’ve got a few copies of Expert Performance Indexing for...
2016-06-17
720 reads
SQL Server Indexing Book Giveaway – Week 3
In past two weeks’ posts (1, 2) I talked about how I’ve got a few copies of Expert Performance Indexing for SQL Server to give away. This is a book that I...
2016-06-17
6 reads
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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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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