VARCHAR DATA CHANGED TO STRANGE CHARACTERS

  • Hello,

    Hope someone can help me. I have a sql 2005 standard database with varchar data in some tables. The data is no longer readable ex. þjxŠŒY’³ýƒŽ~7ʨ­Î 9#’’v5L,ÝJž was once a patients name. I've never experienced anything like this before, and don't even know where to begin to look. This database was once a sql 2000 database that was attached after a crash to sql 2005. As far as I can tell there is nothing else wrong. Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

  • Can you run the following command and post the output? You may have corruption.

    DBCC CHECKDB (yourdbname) WITH ALL_ERRORMSGS, NO_INFOMSGS

    Thanks

    Paul Randal
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