Character with encoding UTF8 has no equivalent in WIN1252

Question

I am getting the following exception:

Caused by: org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: ERROR: character 0xefbfbd of encoding \"UTF8\" has no equivalent in \"WIN         


        

Answer 1

Here's what worked for me : 1 enable ad-hoc queries in sp_configure. 2 add ODBC DSN for your linked PostgreSQL server. 3 make sure you have both ANSI and Unicode (x64) drivers (try with both). 4 run query like this below - change UID, server ip, db name and password. 5 just keep the query in last line in postgreSQL format.

EXEC sp_configure 'show advanced options', 1
RECONFIGURE
GO
EXEC sp_configure 'ad hoc distributed queries', 1
RECONFIGURE
GO

SELECT * FROM OPENROWSET('MSDASQL', 
'Driver=PostgreSQL Unicode(x64); 
uid=loginid;
Server=1.2.3.41;
port=5432;
database=dbname;
pwd=password',

'select * FROM table_name limit 10;')