The Home Server is Back
After reading about the Amazon/Apple attack this morning, I grabbed a second cup of coffee and went in search of...
2012-08-15
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Blog Posts
VM Guest Memory – Watch these numbers !
I have been using VMware vSphere client for a while now and the person who inspired me to use this...
2012-08-15
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Ctrl+R in SSMS 2012
After the successful installation of the SQL Server 2012, some shortcut keys can be possible to not work properly like...
2012-08-14
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Database and Disk Size - PowerShell Script
Every time we do a capacity analysis we need to analyse the database size (free and used) and the disk...
2012-08-14
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Database Certificates and the X.509 Standard
Hello Dear Reader, I came across an interesting discovery about a year ago and realized I’d never written about it. ...
2012-08-14
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Drive Size - PowerShell Script
The below script is used to find the disk size for a set of servers,
## Script to Find List of...
2012-08-14
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First Try at a Wooden Hand Plane
I’ve been reading about wooden hand planes lately (as opposed to hand planes made of metal that plane wood) and...
2012-08-14
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Fix: Crystal Reports Shows Red X Across Entire Page When Report Run Inside Visual Studio
I was googling (with Bing AND Google) like crazy for a solution to this, but didn't find one from any...
2012-08-14
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Modify Host File on Windows 7
Modifying the Windows host file can be a great way to ensure that you don’t accidentally modify production while doing...
2012-08-14
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Speaking at PASS Summit 2012
It’s Not A Repeat
Speaking at the PASS Summit last year was one of the highlights of my career. I had...
2012-08-14
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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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Missing the Jaro Winkler Distance
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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