SQL Server Collation

Hi,
My SAP SQL Server collation - SQL_Latin1_General_CP850_BIN2
My SAP Data Base collation - SQL_Latin1_General_CP850_BIN2
When I run TR se16 to the table ZTEST_PDM I can see all the characters right.
When I run select * from mrd.ZTEST_PDM via SQL Server Management Studio some the characters represented incorrectly.
I believe this is a code page problem.
Any idea how can I run my select and the output will look like I run TR se16?

Hello,
You may take a loo at this link.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/904803/en-us
Kind regards
Qingqing Wang

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update     S
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I found the error :)
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Hello somsekhark,
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balan

Hi Chidam,
you have to distinguish between the server collation and the database collation. In your case, as far as I can tell, you have to uninstall SQL Server 2000 and install it again with the right collation (Binary order for use with the 850 Multilingual Character Set).
Please also refer to note 505906 which describes your scenario.
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Using JDev/ADF and DBSequence with an Oracle database employing before triggers/sequences accomplishes what I am trying to do except I want to accomplish the same thing using a MSSQL Server 2005 database. Unfortunately I cannot change the database.
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Create table named test
use [testdb]
go
set ansi_nulls on
go
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go
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Figured it out!
When using the MS SQL Server 2000 Database with the MS JDBC 2000 Driver you specify the SQL Flavor to SQLServer. However setting the SQL Flavor to SQLServer with MS SQL Server 2005 Database and the MS JDBC 2005 Driver will *** fail ***.
When working with the MS SQL Server 2005 Database and the MS JDBC 2005 Driver you set the SQL Flavor to SQL92 and the Type Map to Java.
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I setup full text index on my contact table and am attempting to run a search on it using the following query:
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(Sorry, I couldn't make those links b/c TechNet hasn't verified my account)
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Whats the collation setting for the columns? try using a case insensitive collation as below
SELECT *
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OR CONTAINS(C.LastName COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS, 'Test')
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Group by languages in multilingual table in sql server

Hi ,
I am having a multilingual table in SQL server 2008 , the table has two columns ID and Text
The text column has English, Chinese and other language texts.
I need a resultset grouped by the languages and count of id like
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English 25
Chinese 10
other languages 3
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Good day SqlServer_learn
I have a saying that I always uses: anything is possible in developing, if you have the appropriate resources (change the existing solution could be part of the way to solve...)
regarding your question, there is simple solution, but for most cases, I highly recommend to change the table structure and add a column for the culture of the text (like: en-us for english,
he-il for Hebrew and so on..).
Since you are using unicode column like nvarchar to store multi language text,
we can get the language from the text itself, as long as it include characters from that language (text which include only numbers for example we we consider as default language since it is the same in all languages).
step 1: First you need an accessory table (Named like UnicodeMapping) which include all unicode characters and the number of the char in unicode (a mapping unicode table). You can use ranges as well, but
it will be faster for the queries if you actually have all the characters, and not just range.
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create table UnicodeMapping (Charecter nchar(1), UnicodeNum int, CultureN NVARCHAR(100), CollateN NVARCHAR(100))
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-- fill the table with main Hebrew characters, using a number table
insert UnicodeMapping (Charecter, UnicodeNum, CultureN, CollateN)
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from _ArielyAccessoriesDatabase.dbo.ArielyNumbers
where
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insert UnicodeMapping (Charecter, UnicodeNum, CultureN, CollateN)
select NCHAR(n), n, 'En-US', 'SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS'
from _ArielyAccessoriesDatabase.dbo.ArielyNumbers
where
n between 97 and 122 -- En
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GO
-- Do the same with all the languages that you need, and all the UNICODE ranges for those languages
select * from UnicodeMapping
GO
Step 2: You can create a function which get NVARCHAR as input and return the culture as output, or work directly on the data using JOIN your table and this table.
Assuming that each row is in specific language, In order to recognize the language, you just need to check 1 character from the original string (a text character and not a number for example which might be in any language) and examine which language this
single character is, using the our UnicodeMapping.
You can check this thread to see an implementation of this idea: https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/ccc1d16f-926f-46c8-8579-b2eecf661e7c/sort-miultiple-language-data-in-sql-serevr-by-collation?forum=transactsql
* dont forget to add to the table all the characters like numbers and chose them as your default language
* in the link above I just select the first character using LEFT, but if the text start with number for example then you will get default language. If you sure that the text must start with real language character then it is best solution, but if not, than
It is better to use a "user defined function" which will find the first character that is not in the default language. if the function do not find any char in non-default language than it return default language, else it check the language using
the UnicodeMapping and return it.
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