“Requested conversion is not supported” using a linked server and ODBC
问题 Our web application stores UTF-8 encoded data in VARCHAR fields. Recently, we have provided our customers access to this data via ODBC using DataDirect's OpenAccess ODBC driver. This is achieved using DataDirect's OpenAccess SDK, writing a C# .Net class to interface with the service. We only allow customers to perform SELECT queries. We also limit results to 100K rows at this time. This solution really works great, except querying fields with some of this encoded data appeared as gibberish to