James Travis

I currently work for a major US Bank in their internal support service area.

I develop tools and applications used by the call center, division, and corporate employees for various tasks.

I work with the following development platforms:
ASP
Visual Basic
ActiveX
COM/DCOM
.NET
Crystal Reports
VBScript
JavaScript
XML/XSL
HTML
DHTML
VBA with Office 97/2000/XP
SQL Server
Oracle
Informix
Visual C++
Photoshop

I am admin over several severs. Platforms include:
SQL 7 & 2000
IIS 4 & 5
Windows NT 4 & 2000

Currently I have developed or am developing applications for:
Project and employee time tracking
Financial Center/ATM information
Web based password resets for various systems
Call center scheduling and adherence
Inventory
  • Interests: My Family, Programming (Go Figure), Movies, Guitar

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Find a string in DB objects.

Find a string in Procedures, Triggers, Constraints, Defaults, Functions, and Views. First off this will not work for any items that have the WITH ENCRYPTION remark in them. With this is can pose a string such as 'INSERT' against all the 'P'rocedures to get a return of which Procedures have an INSERT statment in them […]

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2002-02-21

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Rename User Login

You can effectively rename a user account but as this is messing wit the system tables I would suggest dropping and adding the user back. But for those of you who really want to know how here it is.First off I tested this and it works fine renaming a user. However this is directly modifying […]

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2002-02-14

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Convert a given date to GMT

In SQL 7 you had no way to convert local time to GMT (UTC time) which was added in SQL 2K as GETUTCDATE() which will output the current date you would get with GETDATE() but a it's GMT counterpart. Although this was a great improvement I work with data on another server that's front end […]

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2002-02-05

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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?

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