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Analyse tables for replication ( sql 2000 )

I have a requirement deploy transactional replication for an existing database which wasn't designed with replication in mind. I need to script/deploy based upon PK's, identity columns and timestamp columns. This query allows me to gather and save the information enabling me to generate the various scripts to replicate my database, replication through T SQL […]

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2007-07-12 (first published: )

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Quick Fix secondary Indexes ( SQL 2000 )

In real world production tuning sometimes a "quick fix" is required. This script will generate index create scripts for any column ending ID which doesn't have an index. It's dirty and its quick but you might just be amazed by the results when run against your database!

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2007-07-11 (first published: )

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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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