Eitan Blumin

Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services is an excellent and easy-to-use platform for creating, viewing, managing, and subscribing to reports of...

2012-02-08

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LOOP, HASH and MERGE Join Types

Today I’ll talk about the available JOIN operator types in SQL Server (Nested Loops, Hash and Merge Joins), their differences,...

2012-01-05

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You could be tolerating limited reporting because there isn’t an off the shelf solution...

A while back I wrote a quick post on setting up key mappings in...

In 100 years a lot of what we take to be true now will...

Hello, I inherited a number of tables with like 20-30 column using nvarchar(256) in...

hi , i hear more and more that we have too many connections to...

Hi, i'm running vs2022. I'm trying out a c# script that i'd like to...

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?