Detecting and Removing Duplicate Indexes
Indexes are the solution to many performance problems, but with too many indexes on tables can hurt the performance of...
2012-09-14
1,803 reads
Basit's SQL Server Tips
Introduction to Windows Azure SQL Database Services (Part 2)
In my last article “Introduction to Windows Azure SQL Database Services (Part 1)“, I’ve provided an overview of Microsoft Windows...
2012-09-06
1,245 reads
Capture SQL Server Deadlocks using Extended Events
Microsoft SQL Server provides a variety of different options to monitor deadlocks. This includes Trace flags 1204 and 1222, SQL...
2012-09-03
1,522 reads
SQL Server Guest User – Still a Serious Security Threat
One of the security recommendation inside SQL Server Security Best Practice white paper for guest user is that, to disable...
2012-08-31 (first published: 2012-08-28)
5,272 reads
Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) with Database Mirroring
Database security is essential for the organisations working in healthcare and financial sector because the databases in such organisations contain...
2012-08-23
1,740 reads
Tips For Minimizing Deadlocks in SQL Server
Database servers are configured in such a way that they can service multiple requests from multiple users. Obviously this increases...
2012-08-23
2,473 reads
Different ways to audit SQL Server security
Today, my first article (ie. Different ways to audit SQL Server security) published on SearchSQLServer.com. In this article, I discussed...
2012-08-17
1,084 reads
Introduction to Windows Azure SQL Database (Part 1)
Windows Azure SQL Database also known as SQL Server Data Services or simply SQL Azure is a Microsoft’s cloud services...
2012-08-16
1,934 reads
Find failed SQL Agent jobs using Transact-SQL script
Today, I’m sharing the following T-SQL script which you can use to find which SQL Server Agent Jobs failed yesterday....
2012-08-15
2,297 reads
How to list all CLR objects inside your database?
I wrote the following query that returns the list of all CLR functions/procedures/objects exists inside your database:
SELECT o.object_id AS [Object_ID]
...
2012-08-12
1,302 reads
Blogs
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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