Industry Experience... Required?
This Friday, a guest poll and editorial from Adrian Nichols wondering about the value of experience in a particular area.
2009-01-02
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Editorials
The New Year - 2009
It's the first day of 2009 and Steve Jones gives a few predictions for the new year in this editorial.
2009-01-01
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The Year in Review 2008
Steve Jones looks back at the past year and database news that has occurred.
2008-12-31
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The December 2008 Energy Update
Steve Jones gives one last update on energy issues in the US in 2008 with a look at the construction and building industries.
2008-12-30
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Changing Taxonomy
Steve Jones is considering changes to SQLServerCentral and presents a few ideas today.
2008-12-29
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How Would You Rate This? - Database Weekly (Dec 29, 2008)
Steve Jones wonders if Microsoft is doing a good job with their efforts to patch SQL Server security issues?
2008-12-29
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2008-12-26
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2008-12-24
159 reads
Smart Teaching
Do computers help us learn quicker? Do we need to in today's wired world? Steve Jones talks a little about learning in today's editorial
2008-12-23
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The Set-Based Limit
An interesting post from Linchi Shea inspires Steve Jones to comment on procedural v set-based programming.
2008-12-22
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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