Girish Ganesamanian Tirunelveli

I have 28 years of programming experience, including building cloud native applications, APIs, CICD, site reliability, data strategy, AI, and ML. I have worked in the Salesforce platform since 2016 and have extensive experience with database technologies like Oracle, MNySql, Postgres, MySql, and MemSql. I have managed teams at Amazon Web Services, American Express, City of New York, University of Winnipeg, Monsanto Canada, North West, and Commercial Clearing House (CCH). My experience in technology and management has allowed me to manage teams, implement technology, and drive innovation. My ability to motivate teams to produce high-quality software solutions has accelerated the revenue growth of many organizations.
  • Interests: Music, reading, coding
  • Skills: Python, Salesforce, PostgreSQL

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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?

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