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DBA and Developer: Allies or Adversaries?

In the expansive landscape of software development, the relationship between Database Administrators (DBAs) and Developers has been a subject of intrigue, debate, and occasional drama. Do they collaborate harmoniously...

2024-05-10 (first published: )

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Degrees and Trade Schools

Can we normalize a couple of things? 1 – Trade Schools. Back in the 80’s trade classes in high school and post high school were frowned upon, or looked...

2024-05-08

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Techorama 2024 – Slides

You can find the slidedeck for my Techorama session “Microsoft Fabric for Dummies” on github.
The post Techorama 2024 – Slides first appeared on Under the kover of business intelligence.

2024-05-08

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Missing the Jaro Winkler Distance

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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.
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