FreeTDS Development Group

[Frediano Ziglio <freddy77 AT gmail.com>]

Mike,
   mostly of the problems with characters conversion came from the fact
that mostly of the people do not understand them and then when something
odd happen they just start complaining. Mostly of them put some binary data
to the database and expect they come out the same way!

Technically speaking there are also some problems with some API/Protocols.
For instance before SQL 2000 protocol does not support any details on
columns so you should consider server settings. I never find any way to
discover character encoding in ODBC.

Frediano

Frediano

2014-10-27 19:43 GMT+00:00 Mike Grau <m.grau AT kcc.state.ks.us>:

> Someone told me this about this same setup:
>
>  "They don't know what they have on their hands. Nvarchar & Oracle &
>  "Sql server. Not a good combo. Pity them because it's the character
>  "conversion. It'll be Thanksgiving before they solve this one."
>
> More than that I do not know.
>
>
> On 10/27/2014 01:44 PM, Turk, Scott A wrote:
> > FreeTDS version is 7.2.  The data type of the column in question is
> nvarchar on the SQL server side - would the rest of the table description
> help?  We are accessing the data via an Oracle link in SQL Developer.  The
> data is produced by user input.
> >
> > How can I produce a dump file?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > SCOTT TURK
> > DATABASE ANALYST, DBA
> > COMPUTER SERVICES - MIS
> > MISSOURI STATE UNIVERSITY
> > SATURK AT MISSOURISTATE.EDU
> > (417) 836-6195
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: FreeTDS [mailto:freetds-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of
> Frediano Ziglio
> > Sent: Monday, October 27, 2014 12:13 PM
> > To: FreeTDS Development Group
> > Subject: Re: [freetds] Output from SQL Server database
> >
> > 2014-10-27 16:48 GMT+00:00 Turk, Scott A <SATurk AT missouristate.edu>:
> >
> >> Hi, we're having a problem with the output we're getting across an
> >> Oracle link to a SQL Server database.  The column output appears to
> >> have inserted nulls in between each character.  The data type of the
> column is nvarchar.
> >> Our application is SQL Developer.
> >>
> >> Any ideas on what may be going wrong?  We also use FreeTDS to link to
> >> other SQL Server databases and have not seen this happen previously.
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >>
> >> Scott Turk
> >> Database Analyst, DBA
> >> Computer Services - MIS
> >> Missouri State University
> >> SATurk AT missouristate.edu<mailto:SATurk AT missouristate.edu>
> >> (417) 836-6195
> >>
> >>
> > Hi,
> >   any more details like FreeTDS version, possible dump, how did you
> upload data, tables definition.
> >
> > Frediano
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