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Nick
Posting Yak Master
155 Posts |
 Posted - 2004-01-26 : 12:08:44
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| Hello-I'm having a problem with a simple query, and I'm really not sure why. I have a field defined as nvarchar. When I do the following query in the query analyzer:select top 1 tbLast from tblPeopleI get the following resultÑáðôïðïýëïõNow if I do this query:select top 1 tbLast from tblPeopleWHERE tbLast LIKE '%Ñáðôïðïýëïõ%'Nothing gets returned. I would expect I would get the same result as above. Is there something I'm missing when working with Unicode?Thanks-Nick(Note, the result did not render properly in the forum, but for reference purposes it contains Greek characters. |
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nr
SQLTeam MVY
12543 Posts |
Posted - 2004-01-26 : 12:14:50
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| tryselect top 1 tbLast from tblPeopleWHERE tbLast LIKE N'%Ñáðôïðïýëïõ%'==========================================Cursors are useful if you don't know sql.DTS can be used in a similar way.Beer is not cold and it isn't fizzy. |
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Arnold Fribble
Yak-finder General
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Posted - 2004-01-26 : 12:14:52
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You need to make sure your unicode literal strings have an N in front of them, otherwise the characters not included in the server's (or is it the OS's?) default character set will get down-converted (probably to question marks).select top 1 tbLast from tblPeopleWHERE tbLast LIKE N'%Ñáðôïðïýëïõ%' Gah! Two seconds! |
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nr
SQLTeam MVY
12543 Posts |
Posted - 2004-01-26 : 12:16:55
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| lol.I went back to edit in a comment about convertion straight after hitting submit and Arnold was already there.==========================================Cursors are useful if you don't know sql.DTS can be used in a similar way.Beer is not cold and it isn't fizzy. |
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Nick
Posting Yak Master
155 Posts |
Posted - 2004-01-26 : 12:24:17
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| OK, that took care of that.Now for the real problem (as that part of the problem was me just trying to debug the original problem)I pass the field using a sproc. The sproc in turn uses dynamic sql to put together a rather complex query. If instead of exec'ing the dynamic sql I instead select it, my query ends up looking like the characters aren't in unicode.Does this make any sense? |
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nr
SQLTeam MVY
12543 Posts |
Posted - 2004-01-26 : 12:34:48
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| You have to use unicode everywhere.The exec'd string, parameter received, parameter passed, all strings used to concatenate, ...==========================================Cursors are useful if you don't know sql.DTS can be used in a similar way.Beer is not cold and it isn't fizzy. |
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Unicode Query