UnicodeDecodeError with pandas.read_sql

Question

UnicodeDecodeError: \'charmap\' codec can\'t decode byte 0x90 in position 8: character maps to 

Am seeing teh above error in a sim

Answer 1

the proper encoding for your database is iso-8859-1 according to oracle docs so When you connect() to your database, pass the charset='iso-8859-1' or encoding='iso-8859-1' try both.