Symptom
- SWPM failed with DB connection error message or SAP system could not be started after kernel update
- R3trans shows the following error message
4 ETW000 [ dev trc,00000] Can't run UNICODE-DbSl against non-UNICODE database
4 ETW000 [ dev trc,00000] CheckCodepageType failed. Connect terminated.
2EETW169 no connect possible: "DBMS = MSSQL --- SERVER = 'hostname' DBNAME = 'SID'"
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Environment
• SAP Systems based on SAP NetWeaver
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and higher
Product
SAP ERP 6.0
Keywords
UNICODE-DbSl, non-UNICODE database, CheckCodepageType , KBA , BC-DB-MSS-INS , SQL Server Installation for SAP NetWeaver Products , Problem
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