Connect to Salesforce Data as a Linked Server
Use the TDS Remoting feature of the ODBC Driver to set up a linked server for Salesforce data.
2018-07-27 (first published: 2015-08-18)
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Salesforce: A Very Straightforward Cloud Development Platform
Force.com is an enigma; a Platform-as-a-Service that is designed to appeal to a broad church of developers, to make it quick and easy to write simple cloud-based applications. Robert Sheldon explains, as simply as possible, why this unusual data-centric, and metadata-driven platform is attracting so much interest in the industry.
2015-01-05
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The Salesforce Platform: The Return of the Citizen Programmer
The current popularity of the Salesforce software development platform has taken the industry by surprise. The current IT culture favours the esoteric, yet here is a development platform geared to the idea that anyone can use it: a populist language like BASIC. Does this threaten the careers of professional developers?
2014-11-24
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Missing the Jaro Winkler Distance
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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