Why is sql server storing question mark characters instead of Japanese characters in NVarchar fields?

Question

I\'m trying to store Japanese characters in nvarchar fields in my SQL Server 2000 database.

When I run an update statement like:

update blah 
set add         


        

Answer 1

The code is absolutely fine. You can insert an unicode string with a prefix N into a field declared as NVARCHAR. So can you check if Address is a NVARCHAR column. Tested the below code in SQL Server 2008R2 and it worked.

update blah 
set address = N'スタンダードチャ'
where key_ID = 1

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