SQL Server on steroids with RAM disk
I’ve faced pretty common situation recently – you need to work with huge data during development/testing. It’s good if you have...
2011-07-05
2,572 reads
Danny Riebeek
- Interests: SQL Monitoring
- Website: https://www.sqltreeo.com
How to re-create database quickly
I was running some database unit tests and needed to drop completely everyhing in my database. There are really many...
2011-07-04
677 reads
Cleaner T-SQL with Table Value Constructors
Table Value Constructors were introduced in SQL Server 2008 and enables you to (not only) insert more records with one...
2011-06-29
964 reads
Instead Of Trigger and OUTPUT clause headache
It is known that you cannot get inserted identity values using OUTPUT clause when inserting to view which has instead...
2011-06-28
1,796 reads
Red Gate’s SQL Source Control and better SQL objects organization
Red Gate’s SQL Source Control (RGSSC) is very decent solution source control solution for database development. I am personally using...
2011-06-23
3,032 reads
Scripting dependencies of User-defined Table Types
I was using user-defined tables types (UDTT) quite intensively despite of their current disadvantages especially their forced READONLY behavior when...
2011-06-23
3,866 reads
Stored procedures vs. Do-It-At-Application-Layer-At-All-Costs
Many years back when ASP 2.0 (not ASP.NET) was used as primary server language for web application on Microsoft platform,...
2011-06-10
751 reads
Static or “global” variables in T-SQL using CLR UDT
I faced problem that I had many lookup tables like ProductType, ClientType etc. and wanted to refer to their values...
2011-06-05
1,770 reads
What is SSMS Addin
SSMS is abbreviation of SQL Server Management Studio, according to Microsoft description it is “an integrated environment for accessing, configuring,...
2011-06-03
706 reads
SQL Treeo – Create custom folders in SSMS
SQL Treeo is free add-in to SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) which enables user to create own folder structures within...
2011-05-25
961 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