Finding guidance
We all need guidance as we make our way through our careers and our lives. Some people are blessed with the right folks who can offer that by way...
2023-03-24 (first published: 2023-03-17)
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Mala Mahadevan
Stairway to ScriptDOM Level 1 - An Introduction to ScriptDOM
Get an introduction to the Stairway Series and learn about the power of the ScriptDOM library.
2023-02-22 (first published: 2022-03-09)
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Stairway to ScriptDOM Level 2 - Parsing, Tokens, and the Abstract Syntax Tree
In this level of the Stairway to ScriptDOM, we examine the way the tool parses scripts and creates tokens from the text.
2023-02-22 (first published: 2022-04-13)
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Stairway to ScriptDOM Level 3 - Finding Patterns in the Abstract Syntax Tree
Learn how you can query for patterns in the Abstract Syntax Tree to analyze your code.
2023-02-22 (first published: 2022-06-08)
2,418 reads
Stairways to ScriptDOM Level 4 – Finding Nuanced Patterns
This level of the Stairway to ScriptDOM looks at finding more complex instance of anti-patterns in your code.
2022-12-07
1,338 reads
My adventures with speaking and what changed
I am writing this blog post as contribution to #NewStarNovember and what got me re-started as a tech speaker in 2020. I haven’t done a lot of tech speaking...
2022-11-30 (first published: 2022-11-29)
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T-SQL Tuesday 153: The conference that changed everything
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by my dear friend Kevin Kline (b | t) . Kevin’s call is for us to ‘Tell us the story of how attending an IT conference or...
2022-08-26 (first published: 2022-08-09)
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T-SQL Tuesday #152 – The crazy login client
This month’s T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by Deborah Melkin(b|t), and she has an interesting topic. She wants us to write a rant on a scenario we encountered at a...
2022-07-25 (first published: 2022-07-12)
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T-SQL Tuesday 151 Round up: Coding Standards
I received a great collection of blog posts in response to my T-SQL Tuesday 151 – asking people to write on T-SQL Coding Standards. Rob Farley (t|b) is of...
2022-07-04 (first published: 2022-06-17)
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T-SQL Tuesday 151 Invite: T-SQL Coding Standards
T-SQL Tuesday is the blog party started by Adam Machanic (b|t) over a decade ago and is now maintained by Steve Jones (b|t) on tsqltuesday.com. On the first Tuesday of...
2022-06-06
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Blogs
Post-quantum key exchange – Insurance policy for your packets
AWS recently added support for Post-Quantum Key Exchange for TLS in Application Load Balancer...
Plan your 2026
By Brian Kelley
If you don't have a plan, you'll accomplish it. That's not a good thing.
Another Change
By Steve Jones
Today Redgate announced that we are partnering with Bregal Sagemount, a growth-focused private equity...
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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