why no results are displayed when searching a value in Hebrew string? [duplicate]

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this is my sql query

SELECT [ID] ,[Caption] FROM  [Dictionary] where Caption like 'חי%'

The information exists in my table, but is not displayed.

When i change the hebrew word (חי) to english word it works fine.

I have Microsoft sql 2008..(if it matters..) what am i missing here?

Answer 1

Use the N prefix so the string literal is interpreted as unicode not char under the code page of whatever your database's default collation is

Try this

SELECT [ID] ,[Caption] FROM  [Dictionary] where Cast(Caption AS Nvarchar(max))like N'חי%'