What Data Is Being Sent Externally By Power BI Visuals?
As you build your Power BI reports, you may want to use maps and custom visuals. Have you thought about...
2019-02-28
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Data Savvy
Violin Plots in Power BI
In case you aren’t familiar, I would like to introduce you to the violin plot.
A violin plot is a...
2019-03-05 (first published: 2019-02-14)
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How Many Data Gateways Does My Azure BI Architecture Need?
It’s not always obvious when you need a data gateway in Azure, and not all gateways are labeled as such....
2019-02-07
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Join me for the PASS Data Expert Series Feb 7
I’m honored to have one of my PASS Summit sessions chosen to be part of the PASS Data Expert Series...
2019-02-06
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The Necessary Extras That Aren’t Shown in Your Azure BI Architecture Diagram
When we talk about Azure architectures for data warehousing or analytics, we usually show a diagram that looks like the...
2019-01-18 (first published: 2019-01-11)
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Tab Order Enhances Power BI Report Accessibility
Like a diamond in the sky.
How I wonder what you are!
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
Up above the world...
2018-12-26
178 reads
Power BI Visual Usability Checklist
At PASS Summit, I presented a session called “Do Your Data Visualizations Need a Makeover?”. In my session I explained...
2018-11-27 (first published: 2018-11-15)
2,723 reads
Learning Better Presentation Skills (T-SQL Tuesday #108)
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Malathi Mahadevan (@SqlMal). The topic is to pick one thing I would like to...
2018-11-22 (first published: 2018-11-13)
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Data Factory V2 Activity Dependencies are a Logical AND
Azure Data Factory V2 allows developers to branch and chain activities together in a pipeline. We define dependencies between activities as...
2018-10-16 (first published: 2018-10-03)
1,852 reads
Join Me At PASS Summit 2018
The PASS Summit 2018 schedule has been published, and I’m on it twice! On Monday, November 5, I am giving...
2018-09-06
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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