Re: Extra blank characters querying SQL server from Oracle

Thanks Frank. Here:

    emp_id EMPNAME

                                     city
----------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------
       100 Typ=1 Len=20 CharacterSet=AL16UTF16:
0,77,0,0,0,117,0,0,0,116,0,0,0,104,0,0,0,117,0,0                New York
       200 Typ=1 Len=16 CharacterSet=AL16UTF16:
0,71,0,0,0,97,0,0,0,114,0,0,0,121,0,0                           Seattle
       201 Typ=1 Len=16 CharacterSet=AL16UTF16:
0,68,0,0,0,97,0,0,0,118,0,0,0,101,0,0                           Oak Brook

    emp_id EMPNAME                      city
---------- ---------------------------- ----------
       100 M u t h u                    New York
       200 G a r y                      Seattle
       201 D a v e                      Oak Brook

> Hello,
>
> You could also try
> SELECT DUMP(emp_name, 1010) from sql_server_table;
>
> Lets see what Oracle "thinks" this column type is?
> Oracle should think its NVARCHAR not VARCHAR2.
>
>
>
> Regards,
> Frank
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 7:28 PM Ram Raman <veeeraman_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> We have configured Oracle Gateway to query SQL server from our Oracle 19
>> database. However the results add a blank character to every character
>> returned for columns in sql server that are defined as unicode columns, ie,
>> nvarchar columns.
>>
>> Here is an example of a query result in SQL plus with the source table in
>> sql server:
>>
>> emp_id emp_name city
>> ---------- ------------------------- ----------
>> 100 M u t h u New York
>> 200 G a r y Seattle
>> 201 D a v e Oak Brook
>>
>>
>> The table definition on the sql server side is:
>>
>> CREATE TABLE [dbo].[employee](
>> [emp_id] [smallint] NULL,
>> [emp_name] [*nvarchar*](50) NULL,
>> [city] [*char*](10) NULL
>> ) ON [PRIMARY]
>>
>> Is there a way in Oracle to strip off the blanks automatically, in this
>> example for the emp_name column?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ram
>> --
>>
>>
>>
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