Business Data

Business data are stored in the database. To store strings requiring complex character sets, it is necessary to introduce Unicode support to the database. Individual database platforms support the Unicode encoding in different ways:

• Oracle, DB2 - support Unicode on the database level

  The whole database can be created with Unicode support on all columns

• MS SQL Server - does not support Unicode on the database level

  Not the whole database but only individual columns can be set up for the use of Unicode.