How to display unicode data in MS sql result grid.

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hi,
I have rows with unicode data in my database. after selecting those data its shows like boxes([]). what to do if we want to view unicode data in correct format in MS sql result grid.

Posted 25-Oct-10 1:43am

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Mastersev · Answer 1 · 2010-11-03T13:50:00

Hi there,
You should use a 'N' prefix.
This denotes that the subsequent string is in Unicode (the N actually stands for National language character set). Which means that you are passing an NCHAR, NVARCHAR or NTEXT value, as opposed to CHAR, VARCHAR or TEXT.

for example:

INSERT INTO ... VALUES (N'String',N'String';...
UPDATE ... SET ...=N'String'...WHERE ...=N'String'
SELECT ... FROM ... WHERE ...=N'String'.