Use SQL 2008 Express As A Central Management Server
I had the chance to catch Brent Ozar's webcast last week on creating a poor man's CMDB. In it he...
2009-04-20
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Kendal Van Dyke
Full Text Catalog Scripting "Gotcha" in SSMS 2008
With every new version of SQL Server comes a set of deprecated features. Usually Microsoft gives fair warning that these...
2009-04-15
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Undocumented Trace Flag Improves Performance By Up To 25%
As a production DBA I love to tweak things to optimal perfection. After all, if I paid for the hardware...
2009-04-01
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Orlando .NET Code Camp 2009 Recap
On Saturday, 3/28, I presented Useful T-SQL Statements You May Not Be Aware Of at the 2009 Orlando .NET Code...
2009-03-31
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Launch Replication Monitor Without SSMS
I manage a lot of replication publications\subscriptions and when I get a latency or agent failure alert it always bugs...
2009-03-25
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Ada Lovelace Day – Celebrating Women In Technology
Today is Ada Lovelace Day, an international day of blogging to draw attention to women excelling in technology. I don't...
2009-03-24
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Data Mining With Google Insights For Search
I recently read a NYT article that highlighted how Google search data is being used to predict flu outbreaks at...
2009-03-23
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Upcoming Speaking Engagements
I've got three speaking engagements lined up in next two months:
Wed, March 11 @ oPASS: The Truth About Disk Performance & Configuration....
2009-02-26
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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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Question of the Day
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