2008-06-20 (first published: 2008-05-11)
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Scripts
2008-06-18 (first published: 2008-05-15)
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HowTo prevent BOL getting Online help
Books Online will try to connect to the net and it may get stuck if there is no internet connection.
2008-06-16 (first published: 2008-05-07)
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UDF to return a multi column table of values from an input string
This UDF returns a multi column table of values from an input string of comma separated values
2008-06-11 (first published: 2008-04-29)
1,811 reads
Powershell/SMO: Unload table schema, dri, perms & data.
PSH script to unload table schema, dri, permissions and data to file(s).
2008-06-10 (first published: 2008-05-07)
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2008-06-08
1,886 reads
Difference between two dates in weeks
Returns difference between two dates in weeks, takes into account @@DATEFIRST setting
2008-05-28 (first published: 2008-04-11)
1,291 reads
2008-05-27 (first published: 2008-04-10)
1,743 reads
2008-05-23 (first published: 2008-04-10)
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Backup all DBs of a SQL-Server Instance
Backup all DBs of a SQL-Server Instance depending on Environment Variable "DBBackupPath". The script also distinguishes between Instances
2008-05-22 (first published: 2008-03-28)
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Blogs
RANK() vs DENSE_RANK(): #SQLNewBlogger
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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