The Wild Developers of SQL Server like Wildcards
Phil Factor explains the enduring attachment of database developers to wildcards, despite their current deficiencies.
AI in SQL Server 2025: Embeddings
One of the cornerstones of AI is a concept called embeddings. Virtually every AI model, whether for text, video, or audio, uses something related to embeddings. Starting with SQL Server 2025, this is a term you’ll be hearing a lot, as its potential for applications is enormous!
Widespread New Technology Adoption
It can be hard to change peoples' habits and get them to adopt new technology.
Using SQL Server Stored Procedures with the Django ORM
Learn how you can call stored procedures in the Django ORM, which lets you encapsulate more complex queries inside the database.
Data Streaming Databricks in Azure
The core functionality of Apache Spark has support for structured streaming using either a batch or a continuous method. The two most popular sources of input data are data lake files and Kafka events. Check point files in the data lake are used to keep track of what data has been processed to date.
How I Achieved Scalability in a. Amazon RDS Shared DB Connection Environment
This article shows a solution to the challenge of multiple databases on one RDS instance with different databases and the limitation of 5000 connections.
SQL Server 2022 CU Updates and Error Code 0x851A0043
The documentation cautions that cumulative updates (CU) could fail if a specific registry key isn’t updated after moving the master files, so I wanted to test this before I spent too much time configuring the server.
Deploy DACPAC to Azure SQL Database using Visual Studio
This guide will walk you through the process of deploy DACPAC to Azure SQL database directly from Visual Studio.
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RANK() vs DENSE_RANK(): #SQLNewBlogger
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Using CAT for Testing of Data Agents
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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