Mirrored Backups Posted on SSC
This was fun to run through, nice to see MS adding features even if in my view they didn't quite...
2007-06-12
1,326 reads
Andy Warren
Tampa Code Camp 2007
Web site just went live for this year. Brian & I both presented sessions last year and we're planning to go...
2007-06-12
1,342 reads
Clustered Index Seek or Key Lookup
When I teach performance tuning I always remind students to be cautious about service packs because things you "know" may...
2007-06-04
1,759 reads
Speaking at PASS 2007
I'll be doing a spotlight session called 'Transactional Replication for Beginners' this year. I've been speaking at the Summit since...
2007-05-29
1,362 reads
Book Reviews
I've got a new article running on SSC today with a few more book reviews: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/awarren/2998.asp.
2007-05-23
1,422 reads
Career Book Reviews
Working in the corporate world can be a challenge and most of us muddle through our careers without really having any formal training. Andy Warren has spent time proactively working on his career and learned a great many tips and tricks for succeeeding as an employee and a manager. He brings us a few book reviews that might help you cope with the strange corporate world in which so many of us work.
2007-05-23
2,576 reads
SQL Server 2005 Books
There have been a huge number of SQL Server 2005 books released in the last year, but which ones are worth buying? Here are reviews
of three new books from one of the SQL Server gurus.
2007-04-11
10,070 reads
Replicating Identity Columns
SQL Server 2005 has changed replication dramatically and one of the changes is that subscriber tables have the identity
column. SQL Server guru Andy Warren takes a look at what impact this has on transactional replication.
2007-03-28
8,576 reads
Introduction to ADO - The Command Object
The third article in a four part series, this week Andy shows how to use the command object to work with stored procedure parameters.
2007-02-09 (first published: 2001-12-18)
40,042 reads
2006-11-10
1,225 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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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