2025-05-12
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Log Shipping
2025-04-28
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Minimal Downtime Storage Migration of Large Databases
This article shows how we were able to migrate a TB size database to new storage with minimal downtime.
2024-01-01 (first published: 2021-02-24)
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2020-12-10
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2018-06-28
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Logshipping Report
Get Logshipping report only when secondary is more than certain time behind Primary.
2017-11-14 (first published: 2017-10-27)
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2016-05-11
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Move an Existing Log Shipping Database to a New Monitor Server
How to move a log shipping database to a new monitor server without removing and rebuilding the log shipping setup.
2016-04-04
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Faster Log Shipping Restores
When you’re reading from a log shipped secondary, you want the duration of restores to be as short as possible. The sproc provided switches the restores to “NORECOVERY” mode, and then switch back to “STANDBY” at the end of the process.
2015-12-11 (first published: 2015-11-23)
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Streamline Log Shipping Failovers: DR Made Just For You…
A look at a SQL script solution that can help you easily fail over and back from log shipping scenarios.
2018-12-14 (first published: 2015-09-08)
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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