MVP Status: Renewed
On October 1, 2016, I was first honored by Microsoft with their prestigious MVP award, given to those that they...
2018-07-10
216 reads
The Data Files
MVP Status: Renewed
On October 1, 2016, I was first honored by Microsoft with their prestigious MVP award, given to those that they feel have made a significant difference in their development...
2018-07-10
17 reads
MVP Status: Renewed
On October 1, 2016, I was first honored by Microsoft with their prestigious MVP award, given to those that they feel have made a significant difference in their development...
2018-07-10
6 reads
MVP Status: Renewed
On October 1, 2016, I was first honored by Microsoft with their prestigious MVP award, given to those that they feel have made a significant difference in their development...
2018-07-10
4 reads
MVP Status: Renewed
On October 1, 2016, I was first honored by Microsoft with their prestigious MVP award, given to those that they feel have made a significant difference in their development...
2018-07-10
5 reads
10 Years Young
It was early in 2009 – I don’t remember the date exactly. A group of us had gotten together after the...
2018-06-12
299 reads
10 Years Young
It was early in 2009 – I don’t remember the date exactly. A group of us had gotten together after the previous year’s PASS Summit and started I-380 PASS,...
2018-06-12
10 reads
10 Years Young
It was early in 2009 – I don’t remember the date exactly. A group of us had gotten together after the previous year’s PASS Summit and started I-380 PASS,...
2018-06-12
5 reads
10 Years Young
It was early in 2009 – I don’t remember the date exactly. A group of us had gotten together after the previous year’s PASS Summit and started I-380 PASS,...
2018-06-12
4 reads
10 Years Young
It was early in 2009 – I don’t remember the date exactly. A group of us had gotten together after the previous year’s PASS Summit and started I-380 PASS,...
2018-06-12
3 reads
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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