Vivek Johari

Vivek Johari is currently a Senior CloudOps Engineer and
have more that 14 years of experience in database. He has Master
degree in Computer and also he is Microsoft certified Sql DBA
(MCTS)& Microsoft certified SQl BI professional(MCTS). He is also
Oracle certified profession(OCP)DBA in ORACLE 10g and ORACLE 9i.He has
the experience of working in PL/SQL, T-SQL and SSIS/SSRS. His work
basically involved designing and optimization of the Database.He has
also published many database articles on his blog Technologies with Vivek Johari.
  • Interests: SQL, database, Oracle, Big Data, Azure

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How to change the database collation

To change the collation of an database following commands can be used:

ALTER DATABASE [database name] SET SINGLE_USER WITH ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE
ALTER DATABASE  [database name]  COLLATE Newcollation
ALTER DATABASE  [database name]  SET MULTI_USER

For example , suppose if the name...

2012-01-02

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The Ending Substring

In Azure SQL Database and SQL Server 2025, if I run this, what is returned?

SELECT '[' + SUBSTRING('Steve Jones', 7) + ']'

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