SQL Server 2008 :: Cannot Drop Table With Non-Printable Character On Its Name
Sep 21, 2015
I have a legacy table which name contains non-printable characters (CHAR(31), to be more specific). The non-printable character is beside a underscore, and I've discovered that the shortcut CTRL+SHIFT+_ shoots the CHAR(31) character (which means "US" - Unit Separator). The previous developer should've hit by mistake this combination, and created the table with this weird character on it.
When we issue a SELECT command against the table, it returns results. But when we try to issue any DDL to it (DROP, sp_rename, etc), it simply doesn't work.
Examples:
DROP Table_Name; raises "Msg 15225 - No item by the name of 'Table_Name' could be found in the current database 'MyDB', given that @itemtype was input as '(null)'".
sp_rename 'Table_Name', 'NewTableName'; raises "Msg 102 - Incorrect syntax near '_Name'".
I already duplicated the table with the correct name, and have corrected it on the referenced objects (SP's, Views etc). The remaining step is just dropping it from the database. when we copy+paste from SQL Server to Notepad++, it shows the hidden chacacter ("US") on the middle of the table name, beside the underscore.
The following was found as a solution to detecting non-printable characters in a string. I can find no explanation of how the COLLATE function is used.
how the COLLATE function affects the search string to find the non-printable characters?
patindex('%[^ !-~]%' COLLATE Latin1_General_BIN, titlel) as [Position]
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But is there a more elegant way to do this? For example, instead of dropping and recreating the function, is there a way to simply exit from the script and do nothing if the function already exists? Something like this:
IF OBJECT_ID('MyCustomFunction') IS NULL RETURN GO CREATE FUNCTION MyCustomFunction...
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I have a table like this below and it doesn't only contain English Names but it also contain Chinese Name. CREATE TABLE Names (FirstName NVARCHAR (50), LastName NVARCHAR (50)); I tried to view the column using SQL Query Analyzer, It didn't display Chinese Character. I know that SQL Server 2005 is using UCS-2 Encoding and Chinese Character uses Double Byte Character Set (DBCS) Encoding. I want to read the FirstName and LastName columns and display in Window Form Data Grid and ASP.NET Grid View. I tried to use this code below and it didn't work. It convert some of the English Name to Chinese Character and it display the chinese character and some still in the original unreadable characters. Does anybody know how to read those character from SQL Table and display the correct Chinese Character without converting the English Name into Chinese also? Thanks
int codePage = 950; StringBuilder message = new StringBuilder(); Encoding targetEncoding = Encoding.GetEncoding(codePage); byte[] encodedChars= targetEncoding.GetBytes(str); . message.AppendLine("Byte representation of '" + str + "' in Code Page '" + codePage + "':"); for (int i = 0; i < encodedChars.Length; i++) { message.Append("Byte " + i + ": " + encodedChars); }
message.AppendLine(" RESULT : " + System.Text.Encoding.Unicode.GetString(encodedChars)); Console.Writeline(message.ToString());
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SELECT [Cluster] ,[Max_Break_btw] ,[RefD_Max_Break] ,[DischD_Max_Break] ,[MaxReviewPeriods] FROM [databseName].[dbo].[SpellClusterAssum]
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