SQL Saturday 467 – Precon – Query processing and internals
Im not doing a tremendous amount of public speaking this year and concentrating on more professional matters, however im pleased...
2015-10-04
299 reads
Dave Ballantyne
Getting out of the ground with TSQL Smells.
At SQLBits I had a number of conversations with a number of people over TSQL Smells, my open source project...
2015-03-23
683 reads
Increasing ColumnStore compression ratio for archival and “Cold storage”
At my present client, part of the task I have to under take is to re-engineer the “Cold Storage”. This...
2015-03-17
359 reads
SQLBits, Incremental Statistics and Demo Fail
So another great SQLBits is done and dusted, many thanks to the team, helpers and sponsors for putting on such...
2015-03-08
479 reads
Non use of persisted data – Part Three
A long time ago I looked at some reasons as to why persisted computed columns ( and therefore indexes on those...
2014-11-02
362 reads
Please please tell me now…
.. Is there something I should know, sang Duran Duran many moons ago when I was young and before I knew...
2014-08-15
397 reads
Reasons why your plans suck : No 56,536
I have been working with SQL server for more years than I really care to mention and like to think...
2014-04-12
388 reads
T4 Support in SSDT
Sometimes a piece of technology passes you by completely, T4 templating happens to have done that for me. On tuesday night,...
2014-03-29
1,148 reads
Whats This Command Bar ?
One of the challenges I faced while creating my TSQL Smells visual studio (SSDT) add in, was trying to find out...
2014-03-13
319 reads
On the move
Its been a fair few years since I started blogging on SQLBlogCasts and the time has now come to find...
2013-04-14
621 reads
Blogs
Flyway Tips: AI Deployment Script Descriptions
By Steve Jones
With the AI push being everywhere, Redgate is no exception. We’ve been getting requests,...
A New Word: Fawtle
By Steve Jones
fawtle – n. a weird little flaw built into your partner that somehow only...
Post-quantum key exchange – Insurance policy for your packets
AWS recently added support for Post-Quantum Key Exchange for TLS in Application Load Balancer...
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Fixing the Error
On SQL Server 2025, I have a database that has this collation: SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS. I decide I want to run this code:
SELECT UNISTR('*3041*308A*304C*3068 and good night', '*') AS 'A Classic';
I get this error:Msg 9844, Level 16, State 4, Line 24 The char/varchar input type uses an unsupported collation. Only a UTF8 collation is supported with char/varchar input type in UNISTR function.What is the easiest way to fix this error? See possible answers