Letter To My Father
We spread my Fathers ashes over the past weekend. It was one of the hardest things...
2019-09-06 (first published: 2019-08-22)
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SQLFlipFlopsDBA
Some Time Away
Greetings everybody! It has been a while since I posted anything here. I figured I...
2019-04-26 (first published: 2019-04-15)
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Veterans At PASS Summit ’18
Hello all!
This year at PASS Summit, I will be distributing the below ribbons once again to ANY and ALL Service...
2018-10-10
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Azure Runbook Configuration
Hello everybody! Greetings from the very warm state of Texas! One of the most popular questions I get when talking...
2018-08-23 (first published: 2018-08-02)
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Webinars, and Azure, and SQL… OH MY!
Hello everybody! Thank you once again for stopping by and reading. April has been pretty busy with presentations, and I...
2018-04-25
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Getting the Azure DTU Calculator to work on a 2008R2 OS w/ a 2008R2 SQL Server Instance
Hello everyone! I recently had to do an analysis of a client’s database workload using the Azure DTU Calculator(DTU Calculator)...
2018-04-24
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Migrating to Azure DBaaS – A Client’s Steps Taken to the Cloud – Part 2
Hello everybody! Thanks for stopping by again. In Part 1 of this series, I gave the background of the project, and...
2018-04-02
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Migrating to Azure DBaaS – A Client’s Steps Taken to the Cloud – Part 1
Hello everybody!
I have been working with one of my favorite clients lately on migrating their SQL databases to a DBaaS...
2018-02-10
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Upcoming SQLSaturdays
I have the priveledge of speaking at two SQLSaturday events coming up in the near future. This is the first...
2018-01-02
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Creating and Using Failover Groups in Azure DBaaS – Part 2
Connecting to Failover Group
So in Part 1 of this series, we created and configured our Failover Group. Well, now that...
2017-12-26
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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
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Fixing the Error
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T-SQL in SQL Server 2025: Encoding Functions
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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