Forcing Execution Plan
Very rarely there is a need to force an execution plan and even more rarely we should be doing it....
2018-07-30 (first published: 2018-07-20)
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SQL Toast
Send SMS from SQL Server
We have configured email alerts in our environment. Recently I had requirement of sending SMS for critical alerts on production...
2014-03-31
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Merge outputs of perfmon and profiler to get a great view
There is a way by which we can merge the .trc and .blg files to get a great view as...
2013-10-17 (first published: 2013-10-09)
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SQL Server Statistics
INTRODUCTION
Statistics contain information about the data. How the data is distributed inside the table. They are representation of a table....
2013-09-29
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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