Shuttle Endeavor last mission STS-134: I felt the shockwave
I witnessed a piece of history today at 8:56am; the last voyage of shuttle Endeavor on its STS-134 mission. It was...
2011-05-16
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T-SQL: Identifying, inserting and removing spaces in strings
Frequently, when working with strings you will need to identify, insert or remove spaces before, after or in between characters.
For example, you may...
2011-05-11
3,766 reads
T-SQL UPPER(): Change an all lowercase string to uppercase
The T-SQL UPPER() command allows you to change a lowercase string to an uppercase string.
For example, it will allow you to change the word...
2011-04-05
1,707 reads
T-SQL LOWER(): Change an all uppercase string to lower case
The T-SQL LOWER() command allows you to change an uppercase string to a lowercase string.
For example, it will allow you to change the word...
2011-04-02
884 reads
Word Macro to load a Data Warehouse
Recently I came across a very specific requirement for a Data Warehouse project for one of our customers. Due to...
2011-04-01
548 reads
SSAS errors: Errors in the metadata manager. The dimension with ID of ‘xxx’ referenced by the ‘yyy’ cube, does not exist.
When deploying or processing a cube or dimension you may encounter an error similar to this:
Errors in the metadata manager. The...
2011-03-22
1,255 reads
SSIS Foreach File Enumerator returns more files than expected by appending a wildcard (*) to the file mask
While working on a recent project for a customer that involved importing both Excel 97-2003 and Excel 2007/2010 files, I was...
2011-03-21
1,301 reads
Differences between Merge and Union All transformations in SSIS
What are the differences between Merge and Union All transformations in SSIS ?
The first and most obvious difference is that Merge...
2011-03-03
1,521 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