SQL Server 2012: Time Marches On
Greg Larsen explores the new SQL Server 2012 date and time functions and shows you how to exploit these functions in new application code.
2013-02-13
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Date Manipulation
2012-11-27
2,178 reads
SQL Server Function to return a range of dates
A quick solution is a table function that will create a date range based on the parameters given. Then, you can just join to the results.
2012-11-02
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2012-01-30 (first published: 2011-12-23)
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2012-01-20 (first published: 2011-12-16)
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2011-06-24 (first published: 2011-06-14)
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Find Last Day of the Month
Find the last day (or number of days in a month) in one statement without having to use IFs or BUTs.
2011-05-10 (first published: 2011-04-29)
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2011-04-27 (first published: 2011-04-21)
2,739 reads
2010-11-26 (first published: 2010-11-04)
581 reads
A Flexible Day Of Week Function
A Flexible Day Of Week Function where a criteria can be passed as an integer to a stored procedure.
2010-10-13 (first published: 2010-10-06)
1,387 reads
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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