When using Unicode data in SQL, there are some challenges and pitfalls to be aware of and avoid. Collation is the set of rules for sorting and comparing character data, and different languages and ...

When you select a collation for your server, database, column, or expression, you're assigning certain characteristics to your data. These characteristics affect the results of many operations in the ...

Use unicode character format to import or export data (SQL Server) [!INCLUDE SQL Server Azure SQL Database Synapse Analytics PDW ] Unicode character format is recommended for bulk transfer of data ...

To use a Unicode character set in SQL, specify the character set when creating or altering a database, table, or column. For example, you can use "UTF8" or "UTF16" to indicate Unicode encoding.

With the first public preview of SQL Server 2019, we announced support for the widely used UTF-8 character encoding as an import or export encoding, and as database-level or column-level collation for ...

OK. So, I inherited an ASP 3.0 web app that I just recently realized has a character encoding problem. Long story short, the data that users are submitting has started to become riddled with ...