How Stale Are My Statistics?
Unlike fine wine, you typically wouldn’t want your statistics to be aged. At least for tables that are being updated...
2010-11-05
11,747 reads
Brian K. McDonald
SQLBIGeek’s Function Friday – Return Last Date of the Prior Month
Brian K. McDonald
SQLBIGeek
Twitter: @briankmcdonald
Welcome to the fourth post of my “SQLBIGeek’s Function Friday” blog series. In this series, I am...
2010-11-05
581 reads
Expression Based Interactive Sorting using Reporting Services 2008 – Part 2 Dynamic Sort By
In a previous blog written back in June, I showed you how to use the interactive sort option on a...
2010-11-04
1,840 reads
SQLBIGeek’s Function Friday – Convert Job Duration to Seconds
Welcome to the second post of my “SQLBIGeek’s Function Friday” blog series. In this series, I am...
2010-11-03
1,111 reads
Help! I Can’t Connect to Analysis Services in SSMS
A few months ago, I installed SQL Server 2008 R2 and chose to install SSIS, SSRS and SSAS as well....
2010-11-02
1,601 reads
Creating Analysis Services Partitions Using BIDS
As your database grows in size, Analysis Services cubes that use that database grow along with it. As such, one...
2010-11-02
2,638 reads
SQLBIGeek’s Function Friday – Convert Job Duration to Seconds
Brian K. McDonald
SQLBIGeek
Twitter: @briankmcdonald
Welcome to the second post of my “SQLBIGeek’s Function Friday” blog series. In this series, I am...
2010-10-29
3,571 reads
Creating Analysis Services Partitions Using BIDS
As your database grows in size, Analysis Services cubes that use that database grow along with it. As such, one...
2010-10-28
3,354 reads
SQLBIGeek's Function Friday - Return First Day of Quarter
Brian K. McDonald
SQLBIGeek
Twitter: @briankmcdonald
Welcome to the first of my “SQLBIGeek’s Function Friday” blog series. I understand that I am posting...
2010-10-24
1,415 reads
When was SQL Server Restarted?
While doing some performance testing recently and utilizing some of the DMV’s I figured, I better find out when the...
2010-10-21
2,806 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