Re: ResultSet not returning same data

Question

Thanks to all who offered thoughts / advice on my post yesterday. For those interested here is what I found.
The Problem -
String data stored in MSSQL7 DB, transferred to MySQL4 DB, then pulled for an application did not match. Tests proved that the data IN the DB matched.
What I found -
Strings that were using unique chars such as French and German accent chars were NOT being returned correctly. It seems that when I call
ResultSet.getString() using my SQL7 DB driver I would get a different result than when calling the same method in my MySQL4 Driver.
To fix the problem I had to use
  String myString = new String(
                      ResultSet.getBytes()
                    );It seems that the DB driver was "assuming" what I wanted when using getString().
Further tests proved that...
MySQL DB Driver
getString() == new String(getBytes()) true
SQL7 Driver
getString() == new String(getBytes()) false
Just in case anyone was interested.
Thanks for listening.
ST

Answer 1

In MySQL you can configure the charset used by the database. The default is "latin1", and if you have the correct data in your program, you can just use getString() and setString(). That setup handles strings with French and German accented characters, I know that because I have a program that does it.
Perhaps your MS SQL configuration isn't working right? I don't have any experience on how to set that up.