When I get stumped I ….
I work with a reasonably large team of DBAs. There are 9 of us and we support not only 70+...
2012-10-02
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Kenneth Fisher
DBMail on a cluster
I’ve always found clusters a pain in the neck. For my latest pain I just spent the last 2 days...
2012-09-26
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Using a TVP instead of Dynamic SQL to pass a list into a SP
A couple of days ago I read Steve Jones’ blog on creating a user defined table type. This reminded me...
2012-09-25
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Funny results from OPTIMIZE FOR AD HOC WORKLOADS
I recently turned on OPTIMIZE FOR AD HOC WORKLOADS for the first time on one of my servers. When I...
2012-09-18
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2012-09-13
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EXECUTE AS USER = ‘Somebody else’
As a database administrator I get lots of security requests. “Please grant me read authority on this table, write on that table,...
2012-09-10
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2012-09-07
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sp_helptext
My manager has been quietly laughing under his breath at me for years. Usually because I much prefer queries and...
2012-09-02
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At Startup SSMS setting
I came across this handy dandy little setting earlier this year. It was well hidden from me, by which I...
2012-08-27
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keyword DEFAULT
In 12 years of working with SQL it was only last year that I came across the keyword DEFAULT and...
2012-08-20
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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