SQL Server 2012 (“Denali”): Database Recovery Advisor
Database Recovery Advisor is a new feature in SQL Server 2012 that introduces significant user experience enhancements to the ways DBAs...
2012-03-02
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Blog Posts
The Daily Status Meeting
For the past six months or so I’ve hosted a daily status meeting for a large project. It started out...
2012-03-02 (first published: 2012-02-26)
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Want to write for Microsoft?
Edit: The group I’m speaking to is the Content Team, not the Books Online (BOL) team!
Edit: Updated with FAQs and...
2012-03-02
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A Solid Laser Printer
I bought a Brother 2060 about 5 years ago to serve as our primary printer at the ranch. It was...
2012-03-01
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Checking Your Service Account with T-SQL
Somehow this slipped by me, but there were some new DMVs added in SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1. I suspect...
2012-03-01 (first published: 2012-02-22)
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Choosing the Right Microsoft Reporting Technology Part 1: Report Services
As Business Intelligence has evolved over the years the number of tools we have to choose from for presenting data...
2012-03-01
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Linked Servers
Do you have linked servers that have been created in your environment? Do you know what these linked servers are?
Finding...
2012-03-01
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Linked Servers
Do you have linked servers that have been created in your environment? Do you know what these linked servers are? Finding Linked Servers SQL Server has provided us means...
2012-03-01
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March Question: What tool(s) do you use to help you identify and tune slow performing queries?
Tuning poorly performing queries is one of the most important jobs of the DBA. With this in mind, this month’s...
2012-03-01
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Smart Car Charging
I don’t know if electric cars are the answer, but I do think electricity will play a larger part of...
2012-03-01
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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