Speaking at the Kansas City SQL Server User Group
I will be presenting my session “Backup Basics with PowerShell and dbatools” this Thursday, February 18th at 2:30 PM Central Time at the Kansas City SQL Server User Group....
2021-02-15
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alevyinroc
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Upgrading Ola Hallengren’s Maintenance Solution with dbatools
While presenting Backup Basics with Powershell and dbatools at ONDT, I mentioned a caveat with the -ReplaceExisting switch for Install-DbaMaintenanceSolution. This switch drops all of the objects installed by...
2021-01-25
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Upgrading Ola Hallengren's Maintenance Solution with dbatools
While presenting Backup Basics with Powershell and dbatools at ONDT, I mentioned a caveat with the -ReplaceExisting switch for Install-DbaMaintenanceSolution. This switch drops all of the objects installed by...
2021-01-25
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A Non-Technical Reason to Not Use SELECT *
I got a merge a while back that included a change I wasn’t expecting from one of my developers. All they were doing was renaming a column on a...
2021-01-19
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A Non-Technical Reason to Not Use SELECT *
I got a merge a while back that included a change I wasn’t expecting from one of my developers. All they were doing was renaming a column on a...
2021-01-19
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T-SQL Tuesday #133 - Taking a Break
T-SQL Tuesday is a monthly blog party hosted by a different community blogger each month, and this month James McGillivray (blog | twitter) asks us about our views on...
2021-01-13
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Slides & Demos for Backup Basics with PowerShell & dbatools
I had the honor of presenting a new session, Backup Basics with Powershell and dbatools, at the first Ohio North Database Training meeting this evening. Thank you to the...
2021-01-06
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Slides & Demos for Backup Basics with PowerShell & dbatools
I had the honor of presenting a new session, Backup Basics with Powershell and dbatools, at the first Ohio North Database Training meeting this evening. Thank you to the...
2021-01-06
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2020 Year in Review
Yeah, so…that was a hell of a year, wasn’t it?
Short-Form Reviews of Year 2020 Reviewer #1: 👎
Reviewer #2: ★✩✩✩✩, would not recommend
Best Laid Plans… The year started out really...
2021-01-04
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New-DbatoolsQuestion | Invoke-DbatoolsDiscussion -Platform Github
Chrissy LeMaire (blog | twitter) pinged me earlier this week to tell me about Github Discussions. It’s a new feature of Github which is similar to Stack Exchange, but...
2020-12-02
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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