UnicodeDecode error

Question

When querying on string data in a SQL database using pyodbc (specifically pypyodbc), I received this error:

UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf8' codec can't decode byte 0x92 in position 56: invalid start byte

Answer 1

This issue was resolved by passing unicode_results=True into pypyodbc.connect. Reference documentation here: https://code.google.com/p/pyodbc/wiki/Module