David Dewitt at the PASS Summit
The PASS Summit is complete and we got what we asked for from David Dewitt. He spoke on the third...
2010-11-15
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StrateSQL
PASSMN November Meeting This Week
The PASS Summit has past and now it ‘s time to mention that the November PASSMN meeting is coming up...
2010-11-15
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SQLServerPedia Awards Winner
Thanks to all those that voted for my Index Black Ops blog series for the SQLServerPedia blog awards. I am...
2010-11-15
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White Paper of Supportability Roadmaps
Last week, a new white paper was released that discusses supportability roadmaps for ISVs. The white paper is Testing and...
2010-11-09
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1-Week to PASS Summit 2010 – After Hours
Final post for the countdown – a little later in the week than I wanted. Right now there is less than...
2010-11-05
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PASSMN 2011 Board of Directors
For the third year in a row, we’ve had a blockbuster PASSMN Board of Directors election. By that, I mean...
2010-11-05
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Return of the Index Analysis Report
Let’s Anaylze An Index! Finally up to the last post of this series resurgence. Time to update the Index Analysis...
2010-11-04
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SQLServerPedia Award Nomination
I thought this week was going to be pretty low key. SQL Saturday 58 has wrapped up. The PASS Summit...
2010-11-04
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SQL Saturday 58 – It’s A Wrap! #sqlsat58
It’s Tuesday after PASSMN’s first SQL Saturday event in Minnesota. After a restful weekend, I’m finally starting to completely wind...
2010-11-03
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Why are DBA skills necessary? #TSQL2sDay
Time for another T-SQL Tuesday and this time I’ll finish my entry in time. This month we are talking about...
2010-11-02
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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