SQL Saturday 49 Delivery Mechanisms - Presentation Slide Deck and Files
This past weekend, my wife and I travelled down to Orlando for SQL Saturday 49. I wasn't planning on presenting,...
2010-10-20
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Brian K. McDonald
Return Indexes for a Particular Table using TSQL
I posted a blog recently about returning a listing of all indexes for database, which is good if you want...
2010-10-16
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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...
2010-10-16
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Andy Warren’s Word Counter
I typically don’t blog about other people blogs, because quite frankly I don’t like giving summations of the work someone...
2010-10-14
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List Indexes For Database using TSQL
A while ago, I showed you how to find out what indexes were on a table using the GUI. Today,...
2010-10-14
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Running Totals for Each Group
A while ago, I posted a blog on how one could perform running totals using Reporting Services and a user...
2010-10-11
4,393 reads
Time Saver – Presentation Preparation
Presenting is a huge fear for many and it is no different for me. I have been presenting at SQL...
2010-10-10
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Determine if Directory Exists using xp_cmdshell
Recently, I came across a forum post from a user trying to determine if a directory existed in the file...
2010-10-06
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Strange but True - Report Parameter Label Blank
Here is another one of those strange but true things that I come across every so often which I thought...
2010-10-06
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Converting Dates to Integers
While working on a project recently, I came across a conversion that was trying to convert a date to an...
2010-10-05
798 reads
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