Watch Your Repairs
Apparently PC repair people have learned a few things from auto mechanics of the past. A news group in the...
2009-07-23
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Blog Posts
Database Mirroring - Hitting the Limits
When I first heard about database mirroring in 2004, I was excited. Here was a great new feature that would...
2009-07-22
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Featured Blogger: Glenn Berry
This month I’m featuring Glenn Berry, a Denver based MVP that writes Glenn Berry's SQL Server Performance blog. He blogs...
2009-07-22
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Kindle Alternatives – B&N on Blackberry
I’m not a fan of Blackberry devices. Actually that’s not true, I really dislike them. They’re not intuitive, and I’ve...
2009-07-22
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My Virtual Lab setup Hyper-V 2008 and Virtual Server 2005 R2
One of the things I’ve maintained over the years is a lab to do everything I need. From testing new...
2009-07-22
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Replication Snapshot Errors Caused By Compatibility Level Setting
I ran across an interesting replication error recently that's worth sharing. It happened while using a distributor running SQL 2008,...
2009-07-22
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Barnes and Noble eBooks
I saw yesterday that Barnes and Noble released their e-reader for iTouch/iPhone, Blackerrys, Mac, and PCs and at the same...
2009-07-21
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Contest to Win a Free Trip to PASS
MSSQLTips & Idera are sponsoring a contest where the grand prize in an all expenses paid trip to the PASS Summit...
2009-07-21
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Conversations
Do you know how to start a conversation or how to join one? I usually wait for a pause and...
2009-07-21
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Kindle Update - Broken
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I was literally stunned and it must have shown on my face because my daughter asked me if I was...
2009-07-21
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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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is it true we cant debug c# scripts in ssis anymore under vs
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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