Pain of the Week: Understanding Your Indexes
Want to take a few minutes out of your day on to learn a bit more about indexes? On Thursday,...
2011-06-28
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StrateSQL
Re-blog – June 17-June 23
As I mentioned in the introductory post, I’m summarizing posts from previous years in the the past week. Some posts...
2011-06-24
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Creating A User Group Daily Paper
A few months back, I was asked if there was a way that the information shared by the Twitter users...
2011-06-22
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PASS DBA Virtual Chapter Tomorrow
Tomorrow is time for part two of my presentations this month on Extended Events for the PASS DBA Virtual Chapter. ...
2011-06-21
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PASSMN Meeting Later Today
Well folks, we’re already to the third Tuesday of June. Where’s the summer going to? That means that this afternoon...
2011-06-21
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Re-blog – June 10-June 16
As I mentioned in the introductory post, I’m summarizing posts from previous years in the the past week. Oddly enough,...
2011-06-17
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Speaking At The PASS Summit
It appears I was fortunate enough to be selected to speak at the 2011 PASS Summit. This is shaping up...
2011-06-16
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Re-blog – June 3-June 9
As I mentioned in the introductory post, I’m summarizing posts from previous years in the the past week. Some posts...
2011-06-10
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Get Certified… with Insurance
Have you been thinking about getting certified? Are you close on finishing your studying but aren’t quite sure if you...
2011-06-09
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Reporting Services and Internet Explorer 9
Turns out there is a snag when it comes to using Internet Explorer 9 with SharePoint and SQL Server 2008...
2011-06-08
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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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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