How to export Japanese characters from SQL Server 2008 database to a text file?

Question

I have an odd problem. I need to export Japanese characters from a table to a raw text file. When I run the select statement in SQL, I am able to see the characters displayed correctly. However, when I run the SSIS package to export these values to a text file they are displayed as ?'s.

Data type of the field is NTEXT. Has anyone ran into this problem before?

SQL statement:

select cast(body as nvarchar(max)) as body from msgsMarket

In SSIS package's flat file connection manager, I have set the output encoding to use 932

Answer 1

This is not a solution but might probably help you to identify the problem in your case.

Created a sample SSIS package using SSIS 2008 R2 with UTF-8 and Unicode encodings and the SQL Server data exported correctly to flat files.

Sample SQL data in the file. Description field was of data type NVARCHAR. The sample was also tried by changing the data type of the Description field to NTEXT and the flat files still exported correctly.

SSIS package was created with a data flow task with two outputs for UTF-8 and Unicode.

First flat file connection manager to generate flat file with encoding UTF-8.

Output file generated with UTF-8 encoding.

Second flat file connection manager to generate flat file with encoding Unicode.

Output file generated with Unicode encoding.