ozkary

Oscar Garcia is a Principal Software Architect who resides in South Florida. He is a Microsoft MVP and certified solutions developer with many years of experience building enterprise software solutions. He specializes in building cloud solutions using technologies like AWS, Azure as well as data platform and BI projects for data visualization using SQL Server, Firebase, Redshift, JMP, Tableau and PowerBI. You can follow Oscar on Twitter @ozkary or his blog at www.ozkary.com
  • Interests: big data, data science, cloud data platform
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  • Skills: Data Platform

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Multiple Escape Characters

In SQL Server 2025, I run this code (in a database with the appropriate collation):

SELECT UNISTR('%*3041%*308A%*304C%*3068 and good night', '%*') AS 'A Classic';
What is returned?

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