When connecting to Microsoft SQL Server, you can use the
mssql_unicode_strings accessor to turn of the default usage of unicode
strings (N’’) and use regular strings (’’). This
can improve performance, but changes the behavior. It‘s set to true
by default for backwards compatibility. You can change it at both the
dataset and database level:
DB.mssql_unicode_strings = false # default for datasets
dataset.mssql_unicode_strings = false # just this dataset