PASS Data Summit 2025 Recap
Last week, I attended the annual PASS Data Summit in Seattle. This was the fourth year of the event since Red Gate took over stewardship of PASS after that...
2025-12-05 (first published: 2025-11-24)
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Tim Mitchell
- Interests: SQL Server, Data Warehousing, ETL, Data Architecture, Python, Dbt
- Website: https://www.TimMitchell.net
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Using Python Code in SSIS
SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) is a mature, proven tool for ETL orchestration and data movement. In recent years, Python has exploded in popularity as a data movement and...
2025-09-01 (first published: 2025-08-11)
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T-SQL Tuesday #179 Roundup: The Data Detective Toolkit
Earlier this month, I hosted the monthly T-SQL Tuesday invitation in which I asked, “What’s in your data detective toolkit?” We got some great responses which I’ll recap here,...
2024-10-30 (first published: 2024-10-21)
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T-SQL Tuesday #179: What’s In Your Data Detective Toolkit?
Most of us who work with data have, at least a few times, been presented with a challenge to explore and attempt to make sense of a poorly-defined set...
2024-10-01
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Reflections on My First-Ever Presentation, Fifteen Years Later
May 3rd represents a small but significant milestone in my career. It was 15 years ago today, on May 3, 2008, when I delivered my first public technical presentation....
2023-05-19 (first published: 2023-05-03)
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My Office Setup
At the PASS Summit a few weeks ago, I had a great chat with some folks about our home office setups. More and more of us are working from...
2022-12-16 (first published: 2022-12-01)
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Returning to PASS Summit
In just a couple of weeks, the PASS Summit will return to Seattle, Washington. This one will be extra special, since it’s going to be the first in-person Summit...
2022-10-31
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Creating a Generic SSRS Report
Creating useful reports is part art and part science. On one end of the spectrum, you have visually appealing and highly customized reports and dashboards that are truly works...
2022-04-13 (first published: 2022-03-31)
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What Stephen King Taught Me About Data Storytelling
I’ve been a fan of macabre fiction writer Stephen King since I first picked up The Dark Half sometime in the early 1990s. Since then I’ve read dozens of...
2022-03-20
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Let’s Talk About Your Development Environment
Let’s talk about your development environment. Specifically, I’d like to chat with you about the virtual space where your data architecture team, software developers, and information curators do their...
2021-06-07
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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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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