Enjoying a Down Weekend
Steve is looking for entertainment suggestions after the Oscar nominations were released.
2019-02-01
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Editorials
2019-01-30
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2019-01-29
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Doing the Right Thing
From the time you rise in the morning until you close your eyes at night, your day is filled with thousands of small decisions, many that you don’t even think about. For each decision that you make, there is a probably a good choice and a poor choice available. Most of the time, the good […]
2019-01-28
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2019-01-28
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Your Recovery Time
Disaster recovery is one of those situations that we plan for and hope we never experience. Are you prepared?
2019-01-25
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Fast Enough
The RDBMS works great for many situations, but is it ever fast enough to meet all your needs?
2019-01-24
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Faster Cloud Warehouses
Azure SQL Data Warehouse gets some improvements, and Steve has a few comments.
2019-01-23
70 reads
2019-01-22
81 reads
2019-01-21
122 reads
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