topic Strange Data Behavior Creating QVD in QlikView https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Strange-Data-Behavior-Creating-QVD/m-p/305367#M707303 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P> I have an environment where a client is on 8.5.&nbsp;&nbsp; I downloaded 11 latest release personal to build a test environment to replicate this setup. It is a RAIMA RDM DB with ODBC connectivity.&nbsp; I pull the raw data into QVD files and then do a final pull to create the usuable QVW files for production.&nbsp; I built this test environment to be sure I can migrate this setup to 11 for them.&nbsp; Same Includes, copied the scripts right from the working environment....&nbsp; Same Data directory tree etc.....&nbsp;&nbsp; Now, with a pull to 11 I am getting strange characters and weird data in QVD files.&nbsp; I am getting "BI[]" instead of "BIZ", "19Y" instead of "199 and so forth"....... picture some alternate letters and foreign language style letters. Pulls just fine in 8.5.&nbsp; Do I need to declare data types in 11?&nbsp; Has anyone else seen this behavior?&nbsp; If I ODBC connect via MS Access the data is flawless.......&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Unfortunately I cannot upload the QVD file screenshot to show the exact characters I am getting instead of my actual data, so I attached it.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 15 Dec 2011 22:34:59 GMT 2011-12-15T22:34:59Z Strange Data Behavior Creating QVD https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Strange-Data-Behavior-Creating-QVD/m-p/305367#M707303 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P> I have an environment where a client is on 8.5.&nbsp;&nbsp; I downloaded 11 latest release personal to build a test environment to replicate this setup. It is a RAIMA RDM DB with ODBC connectivity.&nbsp; I pull the raw data into QVD files and then do a final pull to create the usuable QVW files for production.&nbsp; I built this test environment to be sure I can migrate this setup to 11 for them.&nbsp; Same Includes, copied the scripts right from the working environment....&nbsp; Same Data directory tree etc.....&nbsp;&nbsp; Now, with a pull to 11 I am getting strange characters and weird data in QVD files.&nbsp; I am getting "BI[]" instead of "BIZ", "19Y" instead of "199 and so forth"....... picture some alternate letters and foreign language style letters. Pulls just fine in 8.5.&nbsp; Do I need to declare data types in 11?&nbsp; Has anyone else seen this behavior?&nbsp; If I ODBC connect via MS Access the data is flawless.......&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Unfortunately I cannot upload the QVD file screenshot to show the exact characters I am getting instead of my actual data, so I attached it.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 15 Dec 2011 22:34:59 GMT https://community.qlik.com/t5/QlikView/Strange-Data-Behavior-Creating-QVD/m-p/305367#M707303 2011-12-15T22:34:59Z