At SQL Server Geeks 2015 - Pre Conference Session - Benjamin Nevarez
Attended SQL Server Geeks Annual Summit 2015 on last Wednesday (26/8) at Bangalore, India. Due to few urgent responsibilities at...
2015-08-31
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SQL and SQL Only
Query cost and Query Execution time - Difference
This post is my 100th post 🙂 Was inactive in blogging for few years in between. Now back in full flow....
2015-08-25
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Hekaton Part 4: Simple Performance comparison - In Memory vs Disk table
Continuing on the Hekaton Series, this post will attempt a very basic performance comparison of In Memory and disk based...
2015-08-18 (first published: 2015-08-14)
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Hekaton Part 3: Table Creation and Parameters
Part of a Series on "Hekaton". Refer below for previous posts
Introduction to Hekaton - Part 1Creating a Hekaton Database - Part 2
Having...
2015-08-13
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Hekaton - Creating a Database :- 2
With a Gentle intro done on Hekaton - In Memory tables, let us continue exploring further. Today, we will quickly create a database...
2015-08-06
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Hekaton - In Memory OLTP - Getting Started / FAQ :- 1
SQL Server 2014 introduced a major feature called "In Memory - Hekaton" Tables, in which even the fundamental concepts of SQL...
2015-08-04
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Detach and Attach All User Databases
Sometimes you are in a scenario where you need to transfer a large number of databases from one server to...
2015-05-29
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DDL Auditing - Article on SQL Server Central
My article on SQL Server Auditing has been published on www.SQLServerCentral.Com. Article discusses how default trace can be used effectively...
2015-05-22
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How to Size the SQL Server Memory & Why is it important?
The following blog post has 2 objectives.
1) How to size the memory correctly ( or atleast being close to correctly )
2)...
2013-05-27
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Xp_readerrorlog in SQL Server 2012
I have always been a big fan of Xp_readerrorlog. The simple reason is that it much faster to read errorlog...
2013-05-16
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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