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mgohary
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2 Posts

Posted - 2007-09-11 : 03:56:17
I want to import data from Oracle Db to SQL Db and I am using openquery to connect to the Oracle linked server, the problem is that there are arabic characters that can't be transferred correctly though both databases have Arabic as their default language.

Any suggestions?

rmiao
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

7266 Posts

Posted - 2007-09-12 : 23:52:59
Do you use unicode data type?
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mgohary
Starting Member

2 Posts

Posted - 2007-09-13 : 03:46:22
yes I use varchar
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cat_jesus
Aged Yak Warrior

547 Posts

Posted - 2007-09-19 : 16:43:45
Nvarchar is unicode.
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