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Im trying to copy the above data from SQL Server to Amazon Redshift. Unfortunately I found that the characters in catdesc column are replaced by '?'(i.e., question mark).

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Can any one suggest on this?

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Do you know what encoding is used in catdesc column? Is it utf-8? gbk? - ciphor

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Redshift should be able to load in UTF8 characters, you need to use the VARCHAR data type with enough space to handle the multibyte characters.

There's some more information here: Loading Multibyte Data from Amazon S3 and here: Handling UTF-8 Characters in Redshift