SQL Server search in nvarchar & ntext

Question

I\'m using SQL Server 2008 as my database engine in a VS2010, C# ASP.NET web app. My project is Farsi (Persian) so I\'ve used nvarchar and ntext as

Answer 1

You must use COLLATE Latin1_General_BIN2 to get results. Works for Amharic for Ethiopians.

Select * From YourTableName where ColNameYouSearch LIKE N'%YourSerchCriteria%' COLLATE Latin1_General_BIN2"

Answer 2

I am not familiar with C# ASP.NET, but using nvarchar or ntext shouldn't make any difference in query type. I am wandering you are only assigning your query command to a variable and not executing it.. should you do something like myCommand.execute() ?

Answer 3

You should use the N' prefix to indicate that you're searching for a Unicode string:

SELECT * FROM dbo.tblArticle WHERE name LIKE N'%......%'

Otherwise, you're converting your search string back to non-Unicode and then searching....