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yosiasz
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
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 Posted - 2013-06-17 : 16:35:15
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| hi thereI create a linked server to musicbrainz postgres data on a local virtual machine.SELECT a.*, a.name collate latin1_general_ci_as , CAST(a.name as nvarchar(1000))FROM OPENQUERY(musicbrainz,'SELECT * FROM musicbrainz.artist_name where id = 12') As athe result I get brings back square brackets for rows with data in Chinese, Japanese. how do I go about getting the proper character in my query ?Thanks!<><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>If you don't have the passion to help people, you have no passion |
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visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder
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Posted - 2013-06-18 : 00:34:34
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| use a suitable collation which supports chinese,japanese characters------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------SQL Server MVPhttp://visakhm.blogspot.com/https://www.facebook.com/VmBlogs |
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yosiasz
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
1635 Posts |
Posted - 2013-06-18 : 11:10:13
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| the tables also have rows with other lanaguages, is there a generic collation that can be used for all languages. I also found out I can manipulate the collation on the properties of the linked server<><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>If you don't have the passion to help people, you have no passion |
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querying postgressql utf-8 issue