I have a csv file generated from Japanese source system. The Japanese character is shown as given below ¬¼ˆã—Ê튔Ž®‰ïŽÐ ‘åã‰c‹ÆŠ. I have changed file type to UTF-8 and also ETL setting to incorporate that but that is working on new data only.
How can I change existing data in my table which shows characters like ‘åã‰c‹ÆŠ.
Is it possible to get original Japanese characters using SQL functions. I am using SQL Sever as database.
Thanks in advance.
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I have to export a table from a SQL Server, the table contains a column that has a large text content with the maximum length of the text going up to 100,000 characters.
When I use Excel as an export destination, I find out that the length of this text is capped and truncated to 32,765.
Is there an export format that preserves the length?
Note:
I will eventually be importing this data into another SQL Server
The destination SQL Server is in another network, so linked servers and other local options are not feasible
I don't have access to the actual server, so generating back up is difficult
As is documented in the Excel specifications and limits the maximum characters that can be stored in a single Excel cell is 32,767 characters; hence why your data is being truncated.
You might be better off exporting to a CSV, however, note that Quote Identified CSV files aren't supported within bcp/BULK INSERT until SQL Server 2019 (currently in preview). You can use a characters like || to denote a field delimited, however, if you have any line breaks you'll need to choose a different row delimitor too. SSIS, and other ETL tools, however, do support quote identified CSV files; so you can use something like that.
Otherwise, if you need to export such long values and want to use Excel as much as you can (which I actually personally don't recommend due to those awful ACE drivers), I would suggest exporting the (n)varchar(MAX) values to something else, like a text file, and naming each file with the value of your Primary Key included. Then, when you import the data back you can retrieve the (n)varchar(MAX) value again from each individual file.
The .sql is the best format for sql table. Is the native format for sql table, with that, you haven't to concert the export.
I am using ODI to load data from .txt to a table in sql server. The file has the Japanese and Russian characters, but when ODI loads the data in the table it’s showing as “?????”.
Can anyone please help me here.
Thank you.
I'm trying to convert an excel file to sql.
but i'm getting below error.
when i change on truncation value to "ignore" , the convert process will be complete but persian characters will be seen as "?".
Make sure that all your destination columns are NVARCHAR if they are going to be accepting Unicode text.
See here for a detailed explanation: What is the difference between varchar and nvarchar?
As you know, import excel files to SQL server database is doing by Access Engine, in most of the cases that you see this error, it could be solved by below method:
At first, you create an access file and save it in MDB format (this format could be used in SQL server),
and then import your excel file to this Access.mdb file, when all your data is complete, you can import this MDB file from the SQL server to your database,
I have an odd problem. I need to export Japanese characters from a table to a raw text file. When I run the select statement in SQL, I am able to see the characters displayed correctly. However, when I run the SSIS package to export these values to a text file they are displayed as ?'s.
Data type of the field is NTEXT. Has anyone ran into this problem before?
SQL statement:
select cast(body as nvarchar(max)) as body from msgsMarket
In SSIS package's flat file connection manager, I have set the output encoding to use 932
This is not a solution but might probably help you to identify the problem in your case.
Created a sample SSIS package using SSIS 2008 R2 with UTF-8 and Unicode encodings and the SQL Server data exported correctly to flat files.
Sample SQL data in the file. Description field was of data type NVARCHAR. The sample was also tried by changing the data type of the Description field to NTEXT and the flat files still exported correctly.
SSIS package was created with a data flow task with two outputs for UTF-8 and Unicode.
First flat file connection manager to generate flat file with encoding UTF-8.
Output file generated with UTF-8 encoding.
Second flat file connection manager to generate flat file with encoding Unicode.
Output file generated with Unicode encoding.
I am working on Oracle 10gR2.
The character set for DB is as below:
NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET AL16UTF16
NLS_CHARACTERSET AL32UTF8.
I am getting data to be processed in TXT files. The first step in processing this data is creating external tables based on these flat files. One of the fields (and the columns in DB) in the flat file has String data, which contains ® (registered symbol). This character is visible in the txt file, but when I check the external table, the character is saved as �
I have modified the encoding of the IDE to UTF-8, where I am seeing the output of the query.
The data type for the column is: COL NVARCHAR2(1000)
Please suggest as to what could be causing this?
Generally this is caused by incorrect setting of the NLS_LANG environment variable. The NLS_LANG variable must tell oracle the encoding you are using for your data. If the NLS_LANG is unset, oracle assumes ASCII text (and your symbol is non-ascii).
If your data is UTF-8, try:
NLS_LANG=.AL32UTF8
For windows/iso try
NLS_LANG=.WE8ISO8859P15
You NEED to determine the encoding of your text file first. Use a hex editor to determine of the (R) symbol is UTF-8 or not.