Stairway to Always On Level 3: Infrastructure 101
In this next level of the Stairway to Always On, we will look at the components required to implement a Windows Server Failover Cluster.
Stairway to Always On Level 6: Analyse and Deploy an Always On Availability Group
In level 6 of this stairway, we will look deeper into Availability Groups and how to set them up along with a Listener.
Stairway to Always On Level 7: Combining FCIs with Availability Groups
In Level 7 of this stairway, we look at combining Availability Groups with FCIs for both HA and DR protection.
Stairway to Always On Level 8: Segregate Mirror Traffic in AlwaysOn
this article details how to segregate the mirror traffic in an Always On group configuration
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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