SQL Saturday 97 starts in 7 hours
I flew into Austin Texas today and got to spend time with a lot of great people. The journey started...
2011-10-01
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Tim Radney
SQL Saturday 97 Bound
Truck is loaded up and heading to the airport to make an appearance at SQL Saturday #97 in Austin TX...
2011-09-30
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The power of a shirt
I love wearing all my SQL Saturday speaker shirts. Here lately the trend has been nice golf or running shirts...
2011-09-30
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Change Database Owner
This is post is going to be very simple but it is something I come across ever so often and...
2011-09-28
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KB2463332 failed to install
This morning I was working on getting all new inherited SQL Servers patched to current levels of service packs when...
2011-09-27
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SQL Saturday 89 has come and gone!
All the planning, stressing, and freaking out about SQL Saturday #89 came to and end this past weekend. We had...
2011-09-23
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Speaking at SQL Saturday 89
With a late cancellation with one of our speakers a hole was opened on our speaker lineup. I reached out...
2011-09-14
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SQL Saturday #97 – Austin TX
The schedule for SQL Saturday 97 has been posted and I was selected to give my “It’s TempDB, Why Should...
2011-09-08
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SQL Saturday #89 is 10 days away
I just 10 short days Atlanta GA will be hosting the most stellar lineup of speakers SQL Saturday has ever...
2011-09-07
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When technology works.
Living in the South East has it perks with the abundant rivers, lakes, streams, mountains, and friendly people. It also...
2011-09-05
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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