SQL Server 2012: Time Marches On
Greg Larsen explores the new SQL Server 2012 date and time functions and shows you how to exploit these functions in new application code.
2013-02-13
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Date Manipulation
2012-11-27
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SQL Server Function to return a range of dates
A quick solution is a table function that will create a date range based on the parameters given. Then, you can just join to the results.
2012-11-02
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2012-01-30 (first published: 2011-12-23)
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2012-01-20 (first published: 2011-12-16)
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2011-06-24 (first published: 2011-06-14)
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Find Last Day of the Month
Find the last day (or number of days in a month) in one statement without having to use IFs or BUTs.
2011-05-10 (first published: 2011-04-29)
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2011-04-27 (first published: 2011-04-21)
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2010-11-26 (first published: 2010-11-04)
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A Flexible Day Of Week Function
A Flexible Day Of Week Function where a criteria can be passed as an integer to a stored procedure.
2010-10-13 (first published: 2010-10-06)
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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