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ASF 024: Leila Etaati interview

Introduction Leila Etaati is an AI MVP, mentor, trainer, speaker and consultant. She spoke in some important conference such as Microsoft USA Ignite, Microsoft Data Insight Summit, SQL PASS,...

2019-07-26

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ASF 024 video invitation

I’m happy to announce that the next episode of “Ask SQL Family” podcast is coming. This time our guest is an amazing woman, not only in AI and Power...

2019-07-19

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ASF 023 video invitation

I’m happy to announce that the next episode of “Ask SQL Family” podcast is coming. This time our guest is Amit Bansal. We were talking to him during this...

2019-06-21

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Last Week Reading (2019-06-09)

Hello there! Another week, another roundup of Internet interesting stuff. Press Microsoft Business Applications Summit The event is happening now in the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, GA....

2019-06-10

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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?

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