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AdventureWorksLT since 2016 have wrong unicode characters in ProductDescription table
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Description
As mentioned in the title - starting from the AdventureWorksLT 2016 backup there are wrong characters / wrong decoding in the Description column in the ProductDescription table. You may observe them starting from the ProductDescriptionID = 1360 and higher.
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Research direction
Start by inspecting the AdventureWorksLT 2016 backup and the ProductDescription table, focusing on the Description column from ProductDescriptionID 1360 onward. Compare the affected values with the intended text and verify that the corrected backup no longer contains wrongly decoded Unicode characters.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- sql
- Domain
- databases
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100