Apply Test-Driven Development to your Database Projects
This article from MSDN discusses the benefits of TDD and bringing unit testing to your database development.
2008-03-07
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Additional Articles
Extending SQL Server Reporting Services with SQL CLR Table-Valued Functions
This article describes how to take advantage of SQL CLR table-valued functions to combine different types of data sources to create rich and exciting SQL Server Reporting Services reports.
2008-03-07
2,625 reads
Dimensional Model Components: Dimensions Part II
Business Intelligence Architect Bill Pearson continues his subseries surrounding components of the Analysis Services dimensional model. In the second half of this article, we extend our focus on dimensions to include property settings for Cube Dimensions.
2008-03-06
2,556 reads
Featured Blog: iFTS Performance – DocidMap
This next post from MVP Simon Sabin examines one of the major improvements in performance of search.
2008-03-06
1,574 reads
The Stewardship Approach to Data Governance: Chapter 8
This is the eighth article in a continuing series, and this installment discusses the Data Steward Coordinator.
2008-03-06
1,436 reads
How Much Training Data Is Enough?
This tip shows you how you can apply the cross-validation feature in the upcoming SQL Server 2008 release to estimate if the training set size is sufficient for a given model.
2008-03-05
1,371 reads
SQL Server non-clustered indexes for query optimization
Optimize SQL Server non-clustered indexes and queries by considering index fields, compound indexes and SQL Server statistics' impact on non-clustered indexes.
2008-03-05
3,828 reads
Using the script task to dynamically build SSIS package variables
Expressions can be used to dynamically build an output file. Here we will show you another way to do this using the script task.
2008-03-05
2,879 reads
Featured Blog: iFTS Manageability – Loading thesaurus files
MVP Simon Sabin continues his in depth look at Full Text Search in SQL Server 2008. This time he examines how you can load Thesaurus files.
2008-03-04
1,883 reads
Script Component as Data Source
In this article Dinesh Asanka demonstrates how you can use your own data sources in SQL Server Integration Services.
2008-03-04
1,650 reads
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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