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 ...

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.

print"\nNotice in the first row (which was inserted as SQL_CHAR), the UTF-8 stored in the perl scalar is mostly stored as individual characters but then you will be wondering why the few of the ...

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 ...

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 ...