Bulk Insert with Arabic Data in MS SQL 2008

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USE TEST
GO

/****** BULK INSERT  ******/
BULK
INSERT [test]
FROM 'C:\emp.csv'
WITH
(
FIRSTROW = 1,
FIELDTERMINATOR = '|',
ROWTERMINATOR = '\n'
)
GO
/****** End ******/

Msg 4864, Level 16, State 1, Line 3
Bulk load data conversion error (type mismatch or invalid character for the specified codepage)

I am using the above script, however the data is uploading 100% but the arabic data consist of invalid characters.

╪º┘ä╪¿┘å┘â
╪º┘ä╪ú┘ç┘ä┘è
╪º┘ä╪¬╪¼╪º╪▒┘è

Please advise.

With Best Regards

Posted 4-Aug-15 21:24pm

Muzammil Burhan

Updated 14-Aug-19 22:42pm

Maciej Los

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 5-Aug-15 3:35am

What are your character/text data types?
—SA

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter 5-Aug-15 4:41am

What is the default collation of your SQL?

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Mostafa Sakr · Answer 1 · 2015-11-15T23:10:00

Solution 1

column definition must be Nvarchar

Posted 15-Nov-15 23:10pm

Mostafa Sakr

shaker133 · Answer 2 · 2019-08-14T22:42:00

Solution 2

Hi Dear the problem in the file coding 'text file ' the default coding is ANSI
change it to unicode and save it, Thanks.
ENG. Shaker.

Posted 14-Aug-19 22:42pm

shaker133

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CHill60 15-Aug-19 5:09am

As the OP refers to "the Arabic data" they presumably can see the data fine in the csv file they are uploading.
It is the uploaded data that is wrong, which is not affected by changing the encoding of a text file.
Solution 1 from 2015 is correct - the receiving Column on the database must be capable of storing Unicode characters - i.e. it must be defined as NVARCHAR (or NCHAR).
Your solution is incorrect