I try to extract data from an SAP ERP System using SAP Data Services having the West European Codepage (e.g.Table KNA1) - within the data there are several special characters like ß, ö, ä,... and so on - when loading into a Template Table on SAP HANA.
The issue i have now is that those special characters take more space than a column in VARCHAR can store - so there is an option in Data Services to "take" NVARCHAR instead of VARCHAR - that is working but it changes the "Table" in Target related to the Source Table definition (SOURCE: VARCHAR - TARGET: NVARCHAR...).
I know that also from ORACLE as Target Database - but there you can specify additional session parameters like "ALTER SESSION SET NLS_CHAR = 'CHAR' instead of 'BYTE' when the Database is set up with NLS_CHARACTER settings BYTE.
Is there a similar option available with SAP HANA? What i don't want to do is to "manually" change some datatype definitions of the target tables...
Thanks!
Best Regards
Martin
