Drive
What motivates people? What makes them happy at their jobs? Steve Jones talks about Drive, the book by Dan Pink, and the possibility that people actually like doing their jobs and are willing to work.
2011-02-24
211 reads
Editorial
Commuting Pain
Did you know that commuting can actually affect your health? Steve Jones talks about an IBM study on this and suggests you talk to your boss about telecommuting or remote work. The option to do so just might be beneficial for your long term health.
2011-02-23
230 reads
Archiving Little Used Data
How do you decide what to archive? Steve Jones says that you need to come up with a method as our data sizes grow larger and larger all the time.
2011-02-22
282 reads
What's Your Code Quality?
Today we have an editorial reprinted from Jan 3, 2006 as Steve is on vacation. What's the quality of your code? Do you measure it? And does it matter?
2011-02-21
271 reads
Getting Up To Speed on SQL Server Denali
Now that the Denali CTP has been out for several months, Brad asks how you're planning on getting up to speed on the latest version of SQL Server
2011-02-21
486 reads
2011-02-18
143 reads
The Stairway Series
Today we launch a new series of content aimed at providing basic knowledge to people new to a section of SQL Server. Steve Jones comments on the way this series came about.
2011-02-17
698 reads
What Sarbanes-Oxley Won't Do
Today we have a reprint of an editorial from Dec 4, 2005 as Steve is on vacation.
2011-02-16
174 reads
Data Quality
Today we have an editorial reprinted from Dec 12, 2005 as Steve is on vacation. Steve talks about the hassles of poor data quality and why it can hurt a business.
2011-02-15
264 reads
A Variety of Interpretations
This week was T-SQL Tuesday week, the brainchild of Adam Machanic, and hosted by Pat Wright. The theme of Automation produced some very interesting posts. Some of them might inspire you to change the way you tackle the solutions for a variety of problems.
2011-02-14
98 reads
Blogs
Post-quantum key exchange – Insurance policy for your packets
AWS recently added support for Post-Quantum Key Exchange for TLS in Application Load Balancer...
Plan your 2026
By Brian Kelley
If you don't have a plan, you'll accomplish it. That's not a good thing.
Another Change
By Steve Jones
Today Redgate announced that we are partnering with Bregal Sagemount, a growth-focused private equity...
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