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Alan Spillert

Posted Tuesday, December 09, 2008 1:55 PM

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I need to store information with occasional Greek characters. My
SELECT CONVERT (nvarchar, SERVERPROPERTY('collation')) is SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS

Test script:

create table test1 (title nvarchar(200)
INSERT INTO test1 (title )
VALUES ('FcεRI-mediated activity' )
select * from test1

converts the third character from epsilon to "e"

How can I store unicode data correctly?

Thank you for assistance.

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Posted Tuesday, December 09, 2008 2:07 PM

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Alter the table as the following to support the Greek character.

ALTER TABLE test1
ALTER COLUMN title nvarchar(200) COLLATE greek_ci_as

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Alan Spillert

Posted Tuesday, December 09, 2008 2:55 PM

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Thank you, but it did not work.

Is there a database-level collation that might be effecting this?

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Alan Spillert

Posted Wednesday, December 10, 2008 7:43 AM

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This worked:

create table test1 (title nvarchar(200) COLLATE greek_ci_as)
INSERT INTO test1 (title)
VALUES (N'FcεRI-mediated activity')
select * from test1

The "alter" works for columns already present.

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Alan Spillert

Posted Wednesday, December 10, 2008 10:00 AM

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The collate change was unnecessary. Not having to change collation makes testing a large application much simpler.

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Posted Wednesday, December 10, 2008 10:07 AM

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You won't need to change the collation at all.

The reason it is not storing unicode is because you are not passing the string as Unicode.

add the leading unicode N before your string and this will work.

eg

INSERT INTO [test1] (
	[title]
) VALUES (N'FcεRI-mediated activity' )

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