SQL Interface

With SQL Interface, you can load data from a Unicode-mode relational database to a Unicode-mode Essbase application. Table 125 shows supported encodings for Unicode-mode and non-Unicode-mode applications:

Table 125. SQL Interface Supported Encodings for Unicode-Mode and Non-Unicode-Mode Applications

Application mode

Relational Database Encoding

Non-Unicode

A supported non-Unicode encoding

Unicode

A supported non-Unicode encoding

Unicode

UTF-8

SQL Interface accepts user authentication (user name and password) and application information in UTF-8 encoding.

See Supported Locales.