Modify SQL Agent Jobs using PowerShell and SMO
So here we are, week 2 of the #SQLNewBlogger Challenge. This is a follow on to last weeks post Monitoring...
2015-04-27 (first published: 2015-04-14)
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Chris
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Follow the yellow brick what? My road to public speaking.
Follow the yellow brick Road!
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If you would have asked me 2 years ago if...
2015-04-21
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Monitoring SQL Agent Jobs when you work for Mr Krabs
For those of you who don’t know who Mr. Krabs is, he is a character in the TV show Sponge...
2015-04-02
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Intro to SQL Server Automation with PowerShell
March 26th, 2015, a date which will live in infamy!
Well, at least for me it will. March 26th, 2015...
2015-03-30
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Configure SQL Server Agent using SMO
Saw this on twitter and thought I would throw it up on the blog. Easier than responding on twitter.
[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo") | Out-Null;
$SQLServerInstance...
2015-03-24
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Get-DiskSpace
My cheap and dirty PowerShell script for dumping the disk space usage for a Windows machine. It was originally some...
2015-03-24
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Gotcha! PowerShell Array Initialization, Difference between PowerShell 2.0 and 4.0
I like to initialize my arrays by strongly typing my variable as an array, and setting it to null. PowerShell...
2015-03-24
672 reads
My Specialty
So I was reading the following blog post by Brent Ozar and I think it finally hit me right between the...
2015-03-24
301 reads
Using New-TimeSpan to convert friendly time
The question was this:
This is just a quick/fast snippet in response to that question, but I can think of a...
2015-03-24
452 reads
Who is cjsommer?
I’ve been a problem solver as far back as I can remember, always looking for a new challenge. I love...
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? See possible answers