KBI 311031 Enhancement: New Flag In Argent Reports Internal XML To Control SQL Unicode Support

Version

Argent Reports 3.0A-1407-B and above

Date

Friday, 1 Aug 2014

Summary

By default, this feature is enabled – however, some customers may need to disable this feature if they are running into issues where seemingly simple Reports are taking a very long time to generate

One customer has noticed that the Unicode support (denoted in SQL queries as N ‘{value}‘ instead of ‘{value}‘) causes the query to take far longer, even for the simplest and most basic queries

This may be environmental, or SQL-version specific – nevertheless, the flag “UNICODE_SQL” with a value of “1” means enabled, while “0” means disabled

Disabling Unicode SQL means all inputs must be within the standard ASCII table (no foreign characters)

Technical Background

N/A

Resolution

Upgrade to Argent Reports 3.0A-1407-B or above