In relational databases, VARCHAR is one of the most commonly used string data types for storing variable-length character data. For users who are unfamiliar, the differences in VARCHAR across ...

I need to query against a column which contains build numbers stored as an NVARCHAR.<BR>Sorting works fine until you get into double-digit versions.<BR><BR>This works ...

There is a holy war brewing between one of the development teams I'm involved with and the DBA group over using nvarchar vs varchar on a new SQL Server database. It's extremely unlikely that the app ...

When writing queries in SQL Server, I frequently use NVARCHAR strings that start with N'. However, after typing N', the auto-close feature doesn't seem to work, as the second single quote doesn't ...