Support converting varchar to nvarchar for mssql database (#24105) (#24168)

Backport #24105 by @lunny

In #12269, all string fields of struct will generate a NVARCHAR column
in database, but for those Gitea instances installed before that PR,
users have to convert columns themselves.

In this PR, we update the `./gitea admin convert` commands to support
both MySQL and MSSQL database converting. Previously, it only supported
converting `utf8 -> utf8mb4` for MySQL.
Now, it will check the database types.
If it's MSSQL, it will convert `VARCHAR -> NVARCHAR` as well.

Co-authored-by: Lunny Xiao <xiaolunwen@gmail.com>

1 files changed, 27 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/models/db/convert.go b/models/db/convert.go
index b17e68c87e..112c8575ca 100644
--- a/models/db/convert.go
+++ b/models/db/convert.go
@@ -42,6 +42,33 @@ func ConvertUtf8ToUtf8mb4() error {
 	return nil
 }
 
+// ConvertVarcharToNVarchar converts database and tables from varchar to nvarchar if it's mssql
+func ConvertVarcharToNVarchar() error {
+	if x.Dialect().URI().DBType != schemas.MSSQL {
+		return nil
+	}
+
+	sess := x.NewSession()
+	defer sess.Close()
+	res, err := sess.QuerySliceString(`SELECT 'ALTER TABLE ' + OBJECT_NAME(SC.object_id) + ' MODIFY SC.name NVARCHAR(' + CONVERT(VARCHAR(5),SC.max_length) + ')'
+FROM SYS.columns SC
+JOIN SYS.types ST
+ON SC.system_type_id = ST.system_type_id
+AND SC.user_type_id = ST.user_type_id
+WHERE ST.name ='varchar'`)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	for _, row := range res {
+		if len(row) == 1 {
+			if _, err = sess.Exec(row[0]); err != nil {
+				return err
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	return err
+}
+
 // Cell2Int64 converts a xorm.Cell type to int64,
 // and handles possible irregular cases.
 func Cell2Int64(val xorm.Cell) int64 {