Using Extended Events to Detect Connection Pooling
What is connection pooling? Lets start with a definition from MSDN.
Connecting to a data source can be time consuming. To...
2015-10-27 (first published: 2015-10-20)
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Blog Posts
Extended Events Intro
Extended Events is supposed to be taking over for most of Profiler and server-side tracing functionality, but there were people...
2015-10-26
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Finding and keeping your #SQLPassion
I consider myself lucky. I fell into a job that I truly enjoy, something that I do for fun even...
2015-10-26
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Networking Tonight at the YardHouse in Seattle
I’m heading over to the Yardhouse (4th and Pike) as soon as SQL in the City is finished and should...
2015-10-26
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Networking Tonight at the YardHouse in Seattle
I’m heading over to the Yardhouse (4th and Pike) as soon as SQL in the City is finished and should...
2015-10-26
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Of clustered indexes and ordering
There is a particularly irritating and persistent belief that indexes (usually it’s the clustered that gets picked on) are always...
2015-10-26 (first published: 2015-10-20)
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Short Circuit Events
The predicate order is critical. Having the wrong order can result in not trapping the desired events. I cover the critical nature of predicates in the aforementioned article. At...
2015-10-26
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Short Circuit Events
I introduced the importance about predicate order previously. I recommend either reading that article for the first time or reading...
2015-10-26
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SQL Server – Columnstore Index creation error: A columnstore index cannot have INCLUDED columns
Hi friends, in my previous blog we learnt that sparse column cannot be part of columnstore index. In this blog...
2015-10-26
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SQL Server Database Source Control using VSO Git
For a while now, I have ensured that the source code of new projects that I have undertaken (in both...
2015-10-26
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Blogs
Post-quantum key exchange – Insurance policy for your packets
AWS recently added support for Post-Quantum Key Exchange for TLS in Application Load Balancer...
Plan your 2026
By Brian Kelley
If you don't have a plan, you'll accomplish it. That's not a good thing.
Another Change
By Steve Jones
Today Redgate announced that we are partnering with Bregal Sagemount, a growth-focused private equity...
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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