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.

Users have long agitated for more — and more diverse — emoji, arguing that the popular Japanese pictographs simply don’t contain enough characters for modern, global communication. Today ...