the UPDATE gives ????
if the updater field was written in Arabic and this is my query:
UPDATE students
SET first_name = 'الاسم' , last_name = 'الاسم الاخير' ,
father_name = 'الاسم الاخير' , mother_name = '',
birth_date = '1/1/1990 12:00:00 AM' , education_level = '' ,
address = '' , notes = ''
WHERE student_id = 33
And here is the result of the update:
student_id first_name last_name mother_name father_name birth_date
33 ????? ????? ?????? ??????????? 1990-01-01
//the answer is great and thank you people, another question is that I am using this UPDATE syntax in my C# program
command.CommandText = "UPDATE students SET " +
"first_name = " + "'" + first_name + "'" + " , last_name = " + "'" + last_name + "'" +
" , father_name = " + "'" + father_name + "'" + " , mother_name = " +
"'" + mother_name + "'" + ", birth_date = " + "'" + birth_date + "'" +
" , education_level = " + "'" + education_level + "'" +
" , address = " + "'" + address + "'" + " , notes = " + "'" + notes + "'" +
" WHERE student_id = " + id ;
//how to use the character N
Create the database with this collation Arabic_CI_AS, you won't need to put N before the Arabic characters.
You have forgotten the
N
prefix before your string literals which is required so they will be treated asnvarchar
rather thanvarchar
SET first_name = N'الاسم'
etc.without that the text is coerced into whatever characters the code page of your default collation can deal with.