Re: MS SQL Server, JDBC, and Unicode?

From:
"Dan Guzman" <guzmanda@nospam-online.sbcglobal.net>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.databases.ms-sqlserver
Date:
Sat, 11 Jul 2009 10:41:20 -0500
Message-ID:
<Ao26m.19908$iz2.17757@nlpi070.nbdc.sbc.com>

Thanks for doing this, Arne - i should probably have tried it myself. It
eliminates one area of doubt about the problem, but still leaves me none
the wiser as to why the system won't do unicode right. Maybe it's
constructing SQL strings internally, rather than using PreparedStatements,
and not using the N'?' syntax. I really don't think that's the case,
though - i've seen evidence from debugging and stack traces that
PreparedStatements are indeed used.


I want to second Erland's suggestion to capture the actual SQL with
Profiler. Also, check the JDBC sendStringParametersAsUnicode setting to
make sure it is set to true.

We had exactly the opposite situation where a JDBC application that was
sending all strings as Unicode even though the we did not use Unicode data
types in that database. This was killing performance due to non-sargable
values. The developers changed a setting (I think it was the
sendStringParametersAsUnicode) so that parameter values were passed as
non-Unicode strings.

--
Hope this helps.

Dan Guzman
SQL Server MVP
http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/dang/

"Tom Anderson" <twic@urchin.earth.li> wrote in message
news:alpine.DEB.1.10.0907111232530.30152@urchin.earth.li...

On Fri, 10 Jul 2009, Arne Vajh?j wrote:

Tom Anderson wrote:

Has anyone made SQL Server work with unicode in java?


I can't get it not to work.

:-)

The following is tested with the MS driver (driver for 2000
against 2000, but I expect 2005 against 2005 to work identical):

public class Unicode {
   public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
       Class.forName("com.microsoft.jdbc.sqlserver.SQLServerDriver"); //
SQLServer 2000
       Connection con =
DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:microsoft:sqlserver://localhost;DatabaseName=Test",
"sa", "");
       Statement stmt = con.createStatement();
       stmt.executeUpdate("CREATE TABLE unifun (id INTEGER NOT NULL, data
NVARCHAR(50), PRIMARY KEY(id))");
       stmt.executeUpdate("INSERT INTO unifun VALUES(1,N'?????? the wrong
way')");
       PreparedStatement pstmt = con.prepareStatement("INSERT INTO unifun
VALUES(?,?)");
       pstmt.setInt(1, 2);
       pstmt.setString(2, "?????? the correct way");
       pstmt.executeUpdate();
       ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery("SELECT id,data FROM unifun");
       while(rs.next()) {
           System.out.println(rs.getInt(1) + " : " + rs.getString(2));
       }
       rs.close();
       stmt.executeUpdate("DROP TABLE unifun");
       stmt.close();
       con.close();
   }
}


Silly question, but those ?s were unicode characters before you pasted
this into usenet, right?

Thanks for doing this, Arne - i should probably have tried it myself. It
eliminates one area of doubt about the problem, but still leaves me none
the wiser as to why the system won't do unicode right. Maybe it's
constructing SQL strings internally, rather than using PreparedStatements,
and not using the N'?' syntax. I really don't think that's the case,
though - i've seen evidence from debugging and stack traces that
PreparedStatements are indeed used.

tom

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