[freetds] Connection to SQL2000 - Unicode data in a Unicode-only collation
Wilson Mak
wilson.mak at digitalview.com
Thu Sep 22 04:24:42 EDT 2005
Hi Christos,
Thanks for your input. I tried to change it to TDS 8.0, but still it
wont work. Any clues?
Thanks,
Wilson
>On Sep 21, 6:44pm, wilson.mak at digitalview.com (Wilson Mak) wrote:
>-- Subject: [freetds] Connection to SQL2000 - Unicode data in a Unicode-only
>
>| Hi all,
>|
>| I want to connect to a SQL2000 server, however, during the connection, I
>| got an error as below:
>|
>| # tsql -S 10.1.0.200:1433 -U sa -I /etc/freetds.conf
>| locale is "en_US.UTF-8"
>| locale charset is "UTF-8"
>| Password:
>| 1> use TEST
>| 2> go
>| 1> select * from ITEM
>| 2> go
>| Msg 4004, Level 16, State 1, Server SQLSERVER, Line 1
>| Unicode data in a Unicode-only collation or ntext data cannot be sent to
>| clients using DB-Library (such as ISQL) or ODBC version 3.7 or earlier.
>| 1>
>|
>| Here is the freedts.conf:
>|
>| [SQLSERVER]
>| host = 10.1.0.200
>| port = 1433
>| tds version = 7.0
>| try server logins = yes
>| client charset = UTF-8
>|
>| What other stuffs do i need to set to make it work?
>| P.S I can broswe some tables! Weird!
>
>Try setting tds version to 8.0 which is the right one for MSSQL2K. But I
>believe that 7.0 should work too, since MSSQL7 had support for
>n{char,varchar,text}. Maybe we should change our login packet to tell
>MSSQL that we support Unicode even with tds 7.0?
>
>christos
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