[fdo-users] RE: RE: RE: Unicode (nvarchar) support for MS SQL Server

[Maksim Sestic]

Brad,

Although I'm using Autodesk Map 3D 2007 platform, I do not use neither Map's
libraries nor tools to create/access schemas, perform entity
checkin/checkout, stylization, etc. I developed my own set of tools and
functions to do that apart of Map's engine, using either Autodesk's or OSGeo
(native) FDO 3.2 providers available. Neverthless, my meta-model is fully
compatible with Map's.

As far as I can see, Map's MS SQL provider is responsible for this Unicode
problem. I'm new to MS SQL. Frankly, I don't want to mess with RDBMS layer
since it's FDO's business after all :-) Obviously, someone (for some reason)
decided to map String type to MS SQL's varchar type instead of nvarchar.
Now, despite the fact that Autodesk finally supports Unicode - I still can't
use it due to Autodesk's MS SQL FDO provider implementation decision. Bah
:-)

Regards,
Maksim Sestic
 


bradgisoklah wrote:
> 
> ...
> I assume you are using the autodesk fdo schema products to create your
> schema. You will probably have to log a support incident with autodesk on
> the product you used to create the schema in mssql (map 3d?). It may be a
> matter of modidfying the schema and then reloading the data. Everything I
> can find mentions that changing the schema is most likely going to break
> the
> metadata link. In other words the data and the metadata will be out of
> sync.
> Perhaps explaining/describing what tools you used to create the schema and
> load the data would help.
> The autodesk support site is down for maint this morning so I am not
> getting
> much help from that. I did find the following... it may be a useful
> contact
> for you.
> http://discussion.autodesk.com/thread.jspa?threadID=523657
> Brad
> 

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