Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) SQL Server 2008
Transparent data encryption, otherwise known as TDE is one of the new features introduced in SQL Server 2008.
2009-05-04
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Roy Ernest
What a fortnight I had
This has been one of the most stressful fortnight in this company. I did not feel this stressed when our...
2009-03-25
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How Humans Behave
It is strange how people react in different circumstances. Yesterday while going through the forums, there was an interesting post....
2009-01-15
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What a day to start Blogging
I have been thinking of writting a blog for the past 6 months but never had time or could I...
2009-01-13
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Why Object Qualification is important.
You have all read about why object qualification is important. You also must have heard of why stored Proc should not have sp_ as prefix to the name. Now let us proove if this is all true.
2008-03-10
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Importance of UPSERT
A simple UPSERT can reduce reads on tables. This in turn will increase the performance of a DB.
2008-01-29
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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