Re: MS SQL Server, JDBC, and Unicode?

From:
=?windows-1252?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne@vajhoej.dk>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.databases.ms-sqlserver
Date:
Sat, 11 Jul 2009 09:42:09 -0400
Message-ID:
<4a5896b3$0$48236$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>
Erland Sommarskog wrote:

Arne Vajh?j (arne@vajhoej.dk) writes:

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


I don't know much about JDBC, but I don't think Microsoft JDBC driver
for SQL 2000 has a very good reputation. The SQL 2005 is likely to be
better.


Yes.

But if it works with the bad driver, then it is a fair assumption that
it will also work with the good driver.

But not the other way around.

         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));
         }


First of all, are you saying that ?????? does not come back correctly?


No.

I am saying that it work perfectly for me.

With the intention of getting the OP to check differences between
what he is doing and what I am doing.

That would be even stranger, since I would expect your ANSI code page
to be 1252, in which case things cannot go wrong.


Things can always go wrong.

But you think the test would be better with a unicode value > 255 ?

Arne

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