Re: 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".

Jason L. Froebe

Blog, Tech Blog

Comment on Re: MSSQL to MySQL via perl

Replies are listed 'Best First'.
Re^2: MSSQL to MySQL via perl by Anonymous Monk on May 12, 2009 at 15:03 UTC
It appears the OP wants to go MSSQL --> MySQL, not the other way round.	[reply]
Re^3: MSSQL to MySQL via perl by jfroebe (Parson) on May 12, 2009 at 16:38 UTC
Somehow I missed that :( The same rules apply: extract out and in with the same character set. Jason L. Froebe Blog, Tech Blog	[reply]

In Section Seekers of Perl Wisdom