Copy arabic data from SQL 2008

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I have existing data in SQL Server 2008 that has Arabic data in varchar column that I need to copy to SQL Server 2014. When I query the data I see text like èíë¢ïëë¢é Is there a solution. Can I do it through C# application.

What I have tried:

I have tried INSERT using Arabic Collation on the source, bcp utility to export using codepage 1256.

Posted 26-Oct-17 20:28pm

Rishi76

Updated 6-Feb-18 3:46am

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Richard MacCutchan 27-Oct-17 4:35am

That just means you are displaying it in the wrong format. The actual data is not changed.

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Maciej Los · Answer 1 · 2018-02-06T10:09:00

Solution 2

Try resolve your issue by following the instruction from: sql server - How to read Arabic characters from varchar datatype? - Stack Overflow[^]

Posted 6-Feb-18 10:09am

Maciej Los

Santanu24B · Answer 2 · 2018-02-06T03:45:00

Solution 1

Alter the datatype of your destination column to nvarchar(size/max) and then try to insert the data.
I hope this should work.

Posted 6-Feb-18 3:45am

Santanu24B