in reply to MSSQL to MySQL via perl
Hi there,
Microsoft SQL Server and Sybase ASE/IQ/SQL Anywhere will replace unknown characters with a question mark when the default character set does not match the character set of the data being imported.
Recommendation: extract the data out of you MySQL database in a delimited file (csv) using the utf8 (unicode) character set. Import into SQL Server using bcp specifying utf8 with "-Jutf8" parameter and character mode "-c".
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