Learning SQL Server 2014
A list of technologies in SQL Server 2014 that you might want to learn more about.
2015-06-29
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SQL Server 2014
Learning about the Cardinality Estimator
A few links to help you understand the Cardinality Estimator.
2015-06-29
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SQL Server 2014 Build List
A list of builds for SQL Server 2014, through CU4 for SP2 and CU11 for SP1.
2023-02-17 (first published: 2015-02-23)
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2015-02-19
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2014-10-20
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Natively Compiled Stored Procedures: What they are all about
What are natively compiled stored procedures? Why would we want to use them and what are the performance benefits of using them over classic disk-based stored procedures?
2016-05-20 (first published: 2014-08-04)
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2014-06-04
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2014-06-02
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2014-05-15
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2014-05-08
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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