Re: MS SQL Server, JDBC, and Unicode?

From:
Arved Sandstrom <dcest61@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.databases.ms-sqlserver
Date:
Sun, 12 Jul 2009 12:36:25 GMT
Message-ID:
<dNk6m.34772$Db2.23617@edtnps83>
Tom Anderson wrote:

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?

[ SNIP ]

FWIW, Tom, I saw his original characters OK when I read his post...just
a bunch of unlauts that he'd need when he reads and writes in his
heathen language... :-)

AHS

* I'm one to talk - if I read and write in my mother tongue I need ????.

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