User Groups, Geeks, and Puzzles
Last night we had one of bi-monthly meetings of oPASS (Orlando SQL Servers User Group) and we had a pretty...
2007-08-08
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Blog Posts
Am I a Good Customer?
Maybe not. This is a great post and cartoon from David Reed (a friend) mentioning me.
We've had some good arguements...
2007-08-07
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Professional Development Plans Article on SSC
This was fun to write. It's a subject I'm passionate about and that too few in our field seem to...
2007-08-07
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Risky Behavior
An interesting debate from one of my editorials on risk. Some great points raised by everyone, but I still think...
2007-08-07
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No More SSNS
We've dropped an acronym!
In my rounds of the blogs today, a number of people have pointed out that SQL Server...
2007-08-03
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Celko, SQL, and SQLSaturday
Big news here in Orlando is that Joe Celko will be presenting two sessions at SQLSaturday on Nov 10. Once...
2007-08-02
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Revisit What You Know - Published on SSC
The article went live earlier this week. Didn't quite accomplish what I had hoped I think, which was to point...
2007-08-02
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Katmai July 2008 CTP is Out
I'm downloading now, and you need some sort of inviation to do so, but it's available and ready for you...
2007-08-01
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Undocumented use of the Columns_Updated() function
Q I need an easy way to see if a delete transaction has fired a trigger. Do you have any...
2007-08-01
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Midlands PASS Chapter - August 2, 2007
"Database Professional Toolkit" with Brian and Jeremy
Midlands PASS Chapter - August 2, 2007 Meeting
Sponsored by Red Gate Software
The Midlands PASS Chapter...
2007-07-31
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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...
Forums
Where Your Value Separates You from Others
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Fixing the Error
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T-SQL in SQL Server 2025: Encoding Functions
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Question of the Day
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