We migrated from Net Weaver to Tomcat for JAVA servers and during migration the sendStringParametersAsUnicode parameter was not set as false in SQL connection URL which causes severe performance degradation.
Now we are setting sendStringParametersAsUnicode=false explicitly for Java.
My question is, do we need to set this parameter while connecting to SQL 2008 from .NET 4?
As far as I know it is applicable for Java drivers/engine.
Below article explains more on sendStringParametersAsUnicode connection parameter.