Laravel: Generated SQL throws error only on specific tables

Question

I am accessing MS SQLServer through Laravel, using Eloquent ORM or Query Builder. This works fine on all tables, but one particular table throws this error:

Answer 1

Laravel uses db-library (if it's available) to connect to Sql Server which cannot receive unicode data from MSSQL. (1,2)

If you don't have to save unicode data in 'LeistungsBeschreibung', change the column datatype to varchar.

You may want to checkout the accepted answer to a similar question: MSSQL Query issue in PHP and querying text data

Links

• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa937590(v=sql.80).aspx (1)
• https://github.com/laravel/framework/blob/master/src/Illuminate/Database/Connectors/SqlServerConnector.php#L47 (2)