A Script A Day - Day 16 - Database Restore
Today’s script is one I have used more times that I care to remember. As a DBA database backups and...
2012-02-22
678 reads
SQL Server 365
A Script A Day - Day 15 - Untrusted Check Constraints
Today’s script comes about because of a recent discussion about check constraints. The discussion was about the use of WITH...
2012-02-22
1,024 reads
A Script A Day - Day 14 - Upgrading to SQL 2012
Today’s script is one I have used to test one possible upgrade method from SQL Server 2008 to SQL Server...
2012-02-21
972 reads
A Script A Day - Day 13 - Chris' Top Tip - Batches
Today’s post is pretty cool. So you have been reading up about something on the World Wide Web or you...
2012-02-21
463 reads
A Script A Day - Day 12 - Granting Role Membership to All Principals
Today's script will grant membership in the db_owner fixed database role in all online read/writable user databases to all principals not...
2012-02-20
899 reads
A Script A Day - Day 11 - User Permissions By Database
Today's script will return you permissions granted to a user for every online database. The script uses EXECUTE AS so...
2012-02-20
1,095 reads
Sorry...
I've been offline for a week to take some annual leave and recharge my batteries. To make up for the...
2012-02-20
464 reads
A Script A Day - Day 10 - Hosts on vCentre
If you use VMWare for your virtualisation environment all virtual machines are managed by one or more vCentre management servers. ...
2012-02-10
705 reads
A Script A Day - Day 9 - Index Compression Estimations
Today's script provides amongst other information Index compression estimates based on existing index information. All you need to do is...
2012-02-09
1,311 reads
A Script A Day - Day 8 - Non Clustered Index Information
Today's script comes to you from London where I am at my head office for my appraisal! Lets hope it...
2012-02-08
448 reads
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
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Where Your Value Separates You...
Fixing the Error
Comments posted to this topic are about the item Fixing the Error
T-SQL in SQL Server 2025: Encoding Functions
Comments posted to this topic are about the item T-SQL in SQL Server 2025:...
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