That is more a question you might want to ask your DBA. I know it more in the Oracle perspective and do not know the equivalent for MS-SQL. If its a production DB I definitely would get a DBA involved if I didn't already have the know how to do it, at least to guide me through the process..
Joe ________________________________ From: Ramy S. Ayoub <ramyay...@gmail.com> To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Tuesday, February 3, 2009 8:40:12 AM Subject: Re: Upgarde ARserver 7.1 patch 5 from non-unicode to unicode ** Joe- what do you mean by convert the database into a unicode , how this can be done. I'm using SQL 2005 2009/2/2 Joe DeSouza <joe_rem...@yahoo.com> ** You will need to convert your database into a Unicode database first. Without that, even if you do install ARS over that database as Unicode, you will have a problem connecting to it. Joe ________________________________ From: Ramy S. Ayoub <ramyay...@gmail.com> To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 2:40:41 PM Subject: Re: Upgarde ARserver 7.1 patch 5 from non-unicode to unicode ** Hi joe, Longtime :) , we have our production servers running in non-Unicode as we receive data from Seibel ebusiness (Remedy Integrated with Seibel through tibco media ware , so the data become like ضضض , so I found out the my arserver non-Unicode. So I run my upgrade in the dev environment but didn't give me the chance to choose the Unicode , its given me direct upgrade. any solution for this On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 9:26 PM, Joe DeSouza <joe_rem...@yahoo.com> wrote: ** Would be useful if you would tell what went wrong when you tried so someone can help you with what your problem was.. Joe ________________________________ From: Ramy S. Ayoub <ramyay...@gmail.com> To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 2:23:45 PM Subject: Upgarde ARserver 7.1 patch 5 from non-unicode to unicode ** Dear List , Tired to upgrade our ARserver from non-Unicode to uni-code, as we are running SQL-Server 2005 Any suggestion? Regards, Ramy Ayoub _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org Platinum Sponsor: RMI Solutions ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"