Parameter Sniffing in SQL Server 2019: Adaptive Joins
So far, I’ve talked about how adaptive memory grants both help and worsen parameter sniffing, and how the new air_quote_actual plans don’t accurately show what happened. But so far,...
2019-04-10
Database Performance
Parameter Sniffing in SQL Server 2019: Air_Quote_Actual Plans
My last post talked about how parameter sniffing caused 3 problems for a query, and how SQL Server 2019 fixes one of them – kinda – with adaptive memory...
2019-04-09
Selects That Cause Writes
Answer Time While answering a question on dba.se, I got to thinking about if there would be a good way…
2019-04-09
Parameter Sniffing in SQL Server 2019: Adaptive Memory Grants
This week, I’m demoing SQL Server 2019 features that I’m really excited about, and they all center around a theme we all know and love: parameter sniffing. If you...
2019-04-08
Stop Looking At Wait Stats Without Looking At Uptime
Economy Of Waits There’s a joke about two economists walking down the street. One of them asks the other how…
2019-04-08
Scalar function inlining in SQL Server 2019
This insanely cool new performance-related update is one of nicest features in SQL Server 2019, and certainly one I’ve been looking forward to for a long time. If you’ve...
2019-04-08
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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is it true we cant debug c# scripts in ssis anymore under vs
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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