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From: Jonathan Schindler
Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 9:58 AM
To: Kevin Duffy
Subject: upgrade to 8.4 with new character set
To those that know,
We originally built our database with a character set of SQL_ASCII. We
now know the error of our foolish ways. We are trying to upgrade to 8.4
and the windows binaries would like us to use UTF8. I would like to use
a backup to restore onto the new installation, however I am getting
warnings and errors about how I am trying to restore a SQL_ASCII
character set to a UTF8 Database. I need to have confidence that my
data is intact before I can continue with the upgrade. I was wondering
what would be the best course of action. I currently have the 8.4
database installed on a separate machine for testing.
Thank you for all your help
Jonathan Schindler
