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Thursday, March 26, 2015

AWS Redshift: String contains invalid or unsupported UTF8 codepoints. Bad UTF8 hex sequence: b6

When you receive below error message from AWS redshift while executing use copy command then use 'ACCEPTINVCHARS ESCAPE' syntax in copy command:

Error Code: 'String contains invalid or unsupported UTF8 codepoints. Bad UTF8 hex sequence: b6 (error 3) '

COPY <tablename> from 's3://bucket/folder/file.txt'
CREDENTIALS '**********;aws_secret_access_key=******'
DELIMITER   '|' ACCEPTINVCHARS ESCAPE IGNOREHEADER 1;

4 comments:

  1. But if we have a csv format then how to deal?

    Error: Invalid operation: CSV is not compatible with ESCAPE;

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  2. Thanks a lot man ! :) Helped with the issue.

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