Synchronisation of MySQL with C# and MS Access
Posted by: Occo Eric Nolf
Date: May 11, 2006 12:59PM

Looks like I could use some help - someone must have had a problem like this before :)

I'm in the process of migrating MS Access databases to MySQL, mainly because it's the last thing I need to do before I can scrap Windows and run Linux exclusively.
However, I'm running into a problem concerning character sets and collation.

I use C# programs (developed in Visual Studio 2005 on a 64-bit platform) to create text files which can be uploaded to databases later on.
The C# programs producing the text files do some (non-binary) sorting of character strings.

Uploading of the text files to the databases, both in Access and in MySQL, is no problem.
However, queries from both databases are not the same: the MySQL database (defined with the UTF-8 character set and standard collation) sorts character strings in a different order than MS Access.

For my purposes it's vital to have identical character sets and collation methods in the C# programs and the databases.
Problem is that it's very difficult to find out what character sets C# and MS Access actually use.

So, the question is: does anyone have an idea how to synchronise the character sets and collation methods in C#, MySQL and MS Access?
All suggestions are welcome - thanks in advance.

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