Recently I’ve been looking at archiving some data at SQL Saturday, possibly querying it, and perhaps building a data warehouse of sorts. The modern view of data warehousing seems...
2024-06-14 (first published: 2024-05-20)
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There are several tools out there to make your life easier by creating an ERD for your existing db. Everything works pretty well when you have a small number...
2024-06-12 (first published: 2024-05-23)
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There were a number of Microsoft Fabric announcements at Microsoft Build yesterday that I wanted to blog about. Everything announced at Build can be found in the Microsoft Build 2024 Book of...
2024-06-12 (first published: 2024-05-22)
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We’re working through the major refresh of my Certified Kubernetes Administrator series at Pluralsight!
The next course “Certified Kubernetes Administrator: Performing Cluster Version Upgrades” in the updated series is now...
2024-06-12
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Just as it's important to take care of our physical health (and I'm guilty of neglecting that), it is important to take care of our mental health, too. Also,...
2024-06-10 (first published: 2024-05-20)
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This comic was retweeted into my timeline on Twitter (I refuse to call it X). Here’s the dialog from the comic, for those that don’t want to click through...
2024-06-10 (first published: 2024-05-20)
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It seems like every few weeks I come across a database server with a very large msdb. After a small amount of investigation work, I determine that the largest...
2024-06-10
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I like using ChatGPT. But I don't like the $20/month price tag for using OpenAI's app, especially given the API costs fractions of a cent.
So...
2024-06-10
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Dreaming of a data analyst career but feeling a little lost? Already playing with data at work and craving the bigger picture? Or simply looking for a solid read...
2024-06-08
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As a Software Engineer, i would like to learn how to dockerize my Python Fast API Framework and use this dockerize application in my lambda function. This will allow...
2024-06-07
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By Steve Jones
With the AI push being everywhere, Redgate is no exception. We’ve been getting requests,...
By Steve Jones
fawtle – n. a weird little flaw built into your partner that somehow only...
AWS recently added support for Post-Quantum Key Exchange for TLS in Application Load Balancer...
A bali trip is a dream vacation for travelers who want to experience beautiful...
A bali trip is a dream vacation for travelers who want to experience beautiful...
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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