SQL - Exclude items from a table with a specific content

Question

I'm running a query which works just fine when I'm working with normal chars but not with russian, polish etc chars. For instance, when I'm excluding a few items from the selection, this works:

and ARPDisplayName0 NOT LIKE '%Microsoft Office ScreenTip%

These lines instead are not being processed since I see them in the report:

and ARPDisplayName0 NOT LIKE '%Narzędzia sprawdzające pakietu Microsoft Office%'
and ARPDisplayName0 NOT LIKE '%Средства проверки правописания Microsoft Office%'

How can fix it? Thanks a lot :)

Answer 1

That's Unicode, so you need to put a N prefix before the strings, N stands for national character :

DECLARE @x NVARCHAR(max)
SET @x= N'unicode'

Answer 2

It seems like you don't use proper character set for you DB. Check your db encoding is UTF-8.

SET NAMES utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci

Then try again.