When trying to detect whether updates have been installed or not, there were several places we investigated:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\UninstallHKLM\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\HotFixHKLM\Software\Microsoft\UpdatesSome updates still write to...
2011-10-06
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Recently I've started following the public work of Mikko Hypponen (blog | twitter), the Chief Research Officer of F-Secure. I've known...
2011-10-05
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At the beginning of this year, my introductory text to SQL Server, appropriately titled Introduction to SQL Server, became available for sale....
2011-09-19
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In the 1970s my mother and her younger sister married U.S. Marines. Both came to the States when their husbands...
2011-09-12
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I was reading a post by Jonathan Fields (blog | twitter) about making bad guitars. Okay, so what does that have to...
2011-08-15
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This year there's a two step process for electing members to the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS) Board of Directors...
2011-08-11
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A long time ago (in IT terms) in a galaxy far, far away I was helping an organization with a...
2011-08-10
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There are a few posts and articles around the security-scape lately concluding Windows 7 is more secure than OS X,...
2011-08-09
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My primary responsibility at my organization is no longer to be the security architect and incident response team lead. I...
2011-08-08
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I'm always wary of contests to win free stuff, but the folks running MSSQLTips.com are legitimate (I write there as...
2011-08-04
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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...
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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