Alessandro Alpi

Alessandro works in the IT since 2000. He started the DBA career since 2005. It's CTO and co-founder of Engage IT Services S.r.l. in which he's the Team Leader. He manages the development team with a continuous improvement pattern using agile practices. He designed the SQL Server automated deployment in his company using the RedGate tools and Visual Studio Team Services. Thanks to this, he's now Friend Of RedGate. Alessandro is also a teacher for SQL Server and ALM topics and a Translation Community Contributor on the official MS documentation. He's staff member of GetLatestVersion.it. He is also the organizer of some italian online and offline events, like PASS SQL Saturdays and DevOpsHeroes. He's the local organizer of SQL Saturday Parma. He's Certified Disciplined Agile Practitioner.

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A 2015 full of DLM

After SQL Saturday Pordenone, I’ll keep speaking about DLM (aka ALM on databases) during the following events:
PASS Italian Virtual Chapter, April 14. I’ll demonstrate...

2015-03-24

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A 2015 full of DLM

After SQL Saturday Pordenone, I’ll keep speaking about DLM (aka ALM on databases) during the following events:
PASS Italian Virtual Chapter, April 14. I’ll demonstrate...

2015-03-24

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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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