2019-11-23
1,881 reads
Career Growth
The Conference Springboard
The period after a conference is a good time to start driving yourself forward.
2019-11-20
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2019-11-18
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Agile Job Descriptions
Steve ends his week of career thoughts with a look at the job descriptions that we often use to decide if we want to apply for a job.
2019-11-15
278 reads
Micro Credentials
Today Steve talks about a new way of achieving some certification and education from Microsoft.
2019-11-13
267 reads
2024-05-15 (first published: 2019-11-12)
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Falling Behind and Digital Bankruptcy
The challenges of information overload can weigh on technology workers.
2019-10-30
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Contracting for Work
The decision to work for yourself instead of full time for an organization can be a hard one.
2019-10-28
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Experiment First
One skill that's useful to develop is the ability to learn things on your own. Often with a little help, but not too much.
2019-10-16
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Aging in Technology
As we grow and evolve in our careers, we face new challenges all the time. Steve highlights on of those that some tech workers worry about today.
2019-10-14
291 reads
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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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