I've just finished up teaching at an in-person event, the first in fifteen months. It was the SQL Server and Azure SQL Conference (formerly known as SQLIntersection). The event organizers did a great job making it into a hybrid event, where we presented both in-person and virtually, so that people could choose if they wanted […]
2021-06-12
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2021-06-09
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There has been a trend to blame a single IT person, or a small group, for issues in large enterprises. Nowhere else in the corporate world would one person be blamed for a major failure.
2021-06-07
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This week there was an interesting article on DevOps and Ancestry.com's DevOps process. They are a fairly large enterprise, with 70+ teams that need to deploy code on a regular basis. As they've grown, there was some concern over each team learning how to best build their software pipeline. While they shared knowledge with each […]
2021-06-05
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The three themes for speakers at this year's PASS Data Community Summit are: Back to Basics, Reach for the Clouds, and Level Up. The goal here is content that covers a wide variety of areas, with many fewer restrictions from previous years. Perhaps the big thing to note for this year's event is: Free. That's […]
2021-06-02
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Tesla is updating their software in a real world, real life DevOps that their customers experience every day. It impresses Steve and tempts him to get one of their cars.
2021-05-31
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It's a holiday weekend in the US this weekend. As such, many of you will be taking a break from work and enjoying time with family, as well as remembering some history in the US. If you're in the rest of the world, hopefully you have a holiday coming up soon you can enjoy. One […]
2021-05-29
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Comments posted to this topic are about the item 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