Give and Take
This Friday Steve Jones asks about capital at work and does it affect the way you do business.
Developing Report Navigation and Drilldown
This article presents an excerpt from the book, Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services for Dummies, by Mark Robinson. Learn how to produce interesting navigation and drill down reporting using the basic tools provided within SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services.
New Data Types in SQL Server 2008 Part 3
This is the third articlefrom Dinesh Asanka in the series on the new Data Types in SQL Server 2008. In this article the spatial data types are explored.
Improved Drive Space Monitoring
An update to the very popular article written by Mark Nash. In this new version we see some improvements in monitoring the drives on your SQL Server.
Keyword Searching in SQL Server
Have you ever wanted to ensure that keywords in your data are easily searchable? Have you struggled with full-text search? New author Michael Ahmadi brings us an interesting idea for a keyword tracking and searching subsystem based on T-SQL and triggers.
Give and Take
This Friday Steve Jones asks about capital at work and does it affect the way you do business.
Give and Take
This Friday Steve Jones asks about capital at work and does it affect the way you do business.
Give and Take
This Friday Steve Jones asks about capital at work and does it affect the way you do business.
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...
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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