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Manage Your Business Rules in T-SQL Query

Motivation At some point in the carrer, we have come across the problem of hard-coded values in SELECT or WHERE clauses.  And we all agree that these hardcoded values must be parametrised. This bad habit usually backfires when we need to troubleshoot a query. These hardcoded values are usually a business role baked in the […]

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2022-10-18 (first published: )

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Playing popular game of Wordle using T-SQL

Popular and addictive game of Wordle is now written in Transact SQL script. With this script, you can now  play this game on Microsoft SQL Server, using your favourite editor - SSMS, ADS, VS Code, and enjoy playing the game during free time, or whilst waiting for the other SQL query to complete.

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2022-01-19

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Playing popular game of Wordle using T-SQL

Popular and addictive game of Wordle is now written in Transact SQL script. With this script, you can now  play this game on Microsoft SQL Server, using your favourite editor - SSMS, ADS, VS Code, and enjoy playing the game during free time, or whilst waiting for the other SQL query to complete.

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2022-01-19

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Creating Markdown Formatted Text for Results from T-SQL

Markdown documents are becoming increasingly more popular and relevant with the emergence of notebooks. Markdown is a markup language for creating formatted text. It is widely used in tools for collaboration, tools for creating documentation and notebooks. Formatting is easy to understand, readable, simple to adopt, and agnostic. I can use a markdown document on […]

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2021-11-29

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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?

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