How to Show Eastern Letter(Chinese Character) on SQL Server/SQL Reporting Services?

Question

I need to insert chinese characters in my database but it always show ???? ..

Example:

Insert this record.

微波室外单元-Apple

Then it became ???

Answer 1

Make sure you specify a unicode string with a capital N when you insert like:

INSERT INTO Table1 (Col1) SELECT N'微波室外单元-Apple' AS [Col1]

and that Table1 (Col1) is an NVARCHAR data type.