I tried OLE DB as well but results are same. Data type returned is adVarChar. Any other ideas?
Later,
Mikko
Globalization Specialist
Onyx Software - Bringing e-business and business together
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-----Original Message-----
From: Michael (michka) Kaplan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 2:46 PM
To: Mikko Lahti; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Excel 2000, ADO and Unicode
Try not using the ODBC driver. use the OLE DB driver, you will be much
happier with teh Unicode persistence.
michka
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mikko Lahti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 2:37 PM
Subject: Excel 2000, ADO and Unicode
> I'm running into a problem when I try to query Unicode data from Microsoft
> Excel using the Excel ODBC driver via ADO/VB.
>
> My queries work fine w/ ANSI data but not for multilingual (Unicode) data.
> I'm just getting ??? back so somebody does not support Unicode.
>
> When I looked at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/psdk/dasdk/odbc8h4j.htm
> <http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/psdk/dasdk/odbc8h4j.htm> , if I'm
reading
> it correctly, Excel data type TEXT is mapping to SQL VARCHAR and not
> NVARCHAR, which would be a problem in this case.
>
> Is this the case or am I don't something wrong? Is there a workaround for
> this (other than not to use Excel)?
>
> Later,
>
> Mikko
> Globalization Specialist
> Onyx Software - Bringing e-business and business together
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> www.onyx.com
> 425.519.4172
>
>
> Here is the VB code:
>
> Dim adoConnection As ADODB.Connection
> Dim adoRecordset As ADODB.Recordset
> Dim sConnectionString As String
> Dim sQuery As String
>
> 'Instantiate the connection and recordset objects
> Set adoConnection = New ADODB.Connection
> Set adoRecordset = New ADODB.Recordset
>
> 'Create the connection string
> sConnectionString = "Driver={Microsoft Excel Driver
> (*.xls)};DBQ=e:\temp\test.xls;DriverID=790"
>
> 'Create the query string
> sQuery = "select data from ""Sheet1$"" where id = 2"
>
> 'Open the connection
> adoConnection.Open sConnectionString
> 'Get the recordset
> adoRecordset.Open sQuery, adoConnection, adOpenStatic, adLockReadOnly
>
>
>
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