Insert Special Characters In Database
Sep 19, 2006I am writing a web application and everytime I attempt to insert some special characters in the database I get errors. Is there a way around this?
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Can't Insert Special Characters
Jan 2, 2007Hi, I'm new here. Happy new year!
Simple question. I can not insert special characters such as ' " ( ) etc. What special escape I need to put in my sql statement?
SQL Server 2014 :: BCP And Bulk Insert Of Special Characters
Jul 22, 2015I'm testing, with SQL 2014 on the same DB, a procedure that extracts data from a table into a file and Loads data from that file into a different table which has the same columns as the initial table (I use a function to create the create table statement from the source table and change the name of the destination table)
when doing my bcp -c the record with the special character "é" doesn't make it to the file.
when doing a bcp -w the record with the special character makes it to the file but the bulk insert omits the whole record.
The result file in the case that makes it to the file is unicode. I'm not using a format file (don't see the need for it)
The bulk insert into the destination table that contains identical columns as the source (a mixture on int, varchar, char) --> didn't work
I also tried by building the columns of the destination table with nvarchars -- Still doesn't work.
I tried the bulk insert with:
codepage = 'ACP, 'RAW' --> didn't change anything. still didn't work.
It's a complicated process that takes 1 XML record that contains information + the Create Table Statement (to eventually be able to this on a different server/DB) + the title Row for each column + the Data... Each of these are created with a BCP command (all with the same options). they are then appended to each other with a copy /B c:file1.txt + c:File2.txt + c:File3.txt + c:File4.csv c:ResultFile
Once the result file is created I bulk insert the 2 first rows in one table "TableA"
create the tmp table "TABLE B" with the create table statement that is in "TableA"
and do another bulk insert of the remainder of the file into the newly created table.
What else can I try? Should I be creating a format file? what are the benefits of a format file?
It's a very long procedure that does both Extract and Load (with 12 parameters) not sure what I should put here.
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Apr 16, 2015I need to find all uses of special characters in a database. I used the following code to do this:
USE dbName
GO
IF OBJECT_ID('tempdb.dbo.#Results') IS NOT NULL DROP TABLE #Results
GO
[code]...
This will check all tables in the database, but if you want to check specific tables you can uncomment the line in the where clause and specify tables to be checked. The query will return any text fields that have any characters other than letters, numbers or spaces.
This code works fine for me because all the tables in my database have single column primary keys. However I know how much Jeff Moden hates cursors or RBAR queries, so my question is could this have been done by any method other than using a cursor?
Special Characters
Jan 16, 2006Hi All
I have a database I want to check whether any special characters are entered or not
E.g.
Post
-------
Director
Asst*Director
Ma^nager
I want to see all the entires where special characters like !@#$%^&*()_+ are entered
Plz help
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I an concatenating a string using char(187) as the separator. When I run the command "select char(187)" I get the symbol >>
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Apr 2, 2008 Our SQL 2005 databases have "SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS"
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When we try to insert "‚¬" character directly trough insert statement and retrieve it, we're getting right results. When we use web-services to insert data with this character (euro), and retrieving the data back, we're not getting this sign back. We are getting some characters like little squares. If I try to copy and paste them into notepad, I am getting ???
However, when I tried to place them here, I got them right:
‚¬ Å Å¡ Ž ž Å’ Å“ Ÿ
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Jul 6, 2000Iam working on sql server 7.0.
I have to bring in data from a text file into the sql server database. I use the BCP utility in pulling the data.
The flat file data contains special characters like ®. This is the registered trade mark symbol. When I bcp the file using the character mode the special characters are automatically changed to «. So If I am going to pull a data like ACRYLON®, after the BCP I get it as ACRYLON«.
Inorder to replace all these I have written a program but since it has to scan every record the time taken is more. Will in be possible to accomodate iun the BCP to pull the data with special characters.
If you have an answer to this please reply soon.
Thanks,
-Rajesh
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Mar 6, 2001Hi !
I have an DB in SQL Server 7, and in Portuguese we have special characters like "á","õ",etc. And I want to let the visitor to a site to do a search (written in ASP), and not to need to write the correct way (without the accents). But either he writes or not in the correct way, the results are the same, not necessarly in the same order. Is there a SQL Server mechanism that permits this functionality, without doing a very complicated SELECT (takes a lot of time) or replicating a field in the DB (takes a lot of extra space)...
Thanks !
Filipe Lopes, Lisbon, Portugal.
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üöäÖ works fine, but ßÜÄ are reduced to "_". I'm using a html form and a php script to enter the data into the database. Any idea why this isn't working? Funny thing is, when I use a german version of the SQL Server it also works without a problem... but I need this to work on ANY mssql server. Any help would be very much appreciated.
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Special Characters In MSSQL.
Mar 7, 2006Hi,I have a MSSQL Server communicating with an Oracle database through aMSSQL linked server using a MS ODBC connection.If I query the Oracle database through the Oracle ODBC 32Bit Test, theresult is fine:select addrsurname from address where addrnr = 6666;HÅKANSSONIf I do the same query within the SQL Query Analyzer (using the linkedserver), I get:select * from openquery(TESTSW, 'select addrsurname from address whereaddrnr = 6666');H?KANSSONI have tried to both check and uncheck the Automatic ANSI to OEMconversion, but the result remains the same.Does anyone know what to do to make the result display the specialcharacters in SQL Query Analyzer?Thanks,Kenneth
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Here is what I have tried, but it does not seem to work:
Code:
select
ID,
Col1,
max(Col2)as Col2,
Col3,
max(Col4)as Col4,
max(Col5)as Col5,
max(Col6)as Col6,
max(Col7)as Col7,
max(Col8)as Col8,
max(Col9)as Col9
where patindex('%[^-:]%',Col1) = 0 AND patindex('%[^-:]%',Col3) = 0
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Dec 14, 2011In our schools we have a number of East-European, Turkish, Scandinavian, ... students. Their names contain "special" characters, like Ö, Ü, Ø, ... Our users want to be able to search for student names without having to enter those special characters. Most often they don't know the exact spelling of the names and they get "no match found" messages as a result.
They want to have persons with the name Ösgür, Osgueld, ... in the result set after entering "osgu" in the search field.
What is the best way to do this? I was thinking about using another collation near the LIKE, but I don't know if that would work and how it should be done. The Database collation is Latin1_General_CI_AS.
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select top 50 *
from [dbo].[SV20150122]
where street LIKE '%[^0-9a-zA-Z @.-]%'
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Jan 19, 2008
Hi,
I'm trying to figure out how to insert a special character that will make the values in the column BOLD when I use that table as reference in my Word Mailmerge. For starters, I was able to insert char(10) as carriage return, so when I use the values from that table in my mailmerge, the char(10) is effective, meaning, the carriage returrn is working, but how about making the font bold? Please help.
Example is:
insert into table(customer_address)
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This value when used in a Word Mailmerge, will be displayed as:
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new land grove
chicago
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dim newItem as new ListItem(textString, valueString)
theDropDown.items.add(newItem)
The problem that I am having occurs when the textString needs to contains special characters such as accented vowels or an "n" with a tilde. I have tried populating the database with HTML-formatted strings such as "Avión", hoping that this would display "Avion" with an accute accent over the "o". Unfortunately it displays "Avión".
How do I get dynamically-created dropdowns to display special characters? If the answer is to simply store the special characters directly in the database, then the question becomes how do I get the special characters into the database? I tried to figure out how to write a T-SQL command such as
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Group BY Issue -Special Characters
Dec 7, 2007We have a column that contains special characters which are downloaded from DB2 and stored in sql as varchar(4)
The ASCII() function is showing that two of the values are different, yet a simple group by indicates they are the same.
select [LRI_MAINT_KEY], ascii(substring(lri_maint_key,1,1)),ascii(substring(lri_maint_key,2,1)),ascii(substring(lri_maint_key,3,1)),ascii(substring(lri_maint_key,4,1))
FROM [DB2Staging].[dbo].[DB2_LRI_INTERIM_MKEYS]
group by [LRI_MAINT_KEY], ascii(substring(lri_maint_key,1,1)),ascii(substring(lri_maint_key,2,1)),ascii(substring(lri_maint_key,3,1)),ascii(substring(lri_maint_key,4,1))
having count(1) > 1
LRI_MAINT_KEY (No column name) (No column name) (No column name) (No column name)
O 79 3 10 20
OÆ’* 79 3 131 42
select [LRI_MAINT_KEY]
FROM [DB2Staging].[dbo].[DB2_LRI_INTERIM_MKEYS]
group by [LRI_MAINT_KEY]
having count(1) > 1
O
Oë@
O
OÆ’*
SELECT [LRI_MAINT_KEY]
into #temp_1
FROM [DB2Staging].[dbo].[DB2_LRI_INTERIM_MKEYS]
group by [LRI_MAINT_KEY]
having count(1) > 1
select ascii(substring(lri_maint_key,1,1)),ascii(substring(lri_maint_key,2,1)),ascii(substring(lri_maint_key,3,1)),ascii(substring(lri_maint_key,4,1)) ,*
FROM [DB2Staging].[dbo].[DB2_LRI_INTERIM_MKEYS]
where lri_maint_key in
(
select [LRI_MAINT_KEY] from #temp_1
)
LRI_MAINT_KEY (No column name) (No column name) (No column name) (No column name) LRI_OID
Oë@ 79 1 235 64 9400000010
OË@ 79 1 203 64 9400000083
O 79 0 234 60 940000009F
O 79 0 202 60 9400000119
OÆ’* 79 3 131 42 94000006E0
OÆ’* 79 3 131 42 94000006F5
O 79 3 10 20 9400000884
O 79 3 10 20 9400000885
Are there any know issues using columns with special characters in the group by clause. Let me know.
Thanks
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Jul 11, 2001Hi,
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Jun 1, 2006I have a table with several columns of information that I wish to set up some form of schedule to go through this data and remove any special characters that may interfere with other code processes.
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