in MS SQL Server to store Unicode. char and varchar columns use a codepage # and unicode characters inserted into them are converted to the codepage. # If a conversion does not exist in the codepage ...

Varchar is the ANSI version of character data – storing as 8-bits, while nvarchar is Unicode, storing as 16 bits ... of 42 million rows for 18 months of production data. Something SQL Server should be ...

With the first public preview of SQL Server 2019, we announced support for the widely used UTF-8 character encoding as an import or export encoding, and as database-level or column-level collation for ...

and then tries to compare that Unicode literal to my non-Unicode (char or varchar) Name column. SQL Server then has to do the work to convert 'Vogel' back out of Unicode (or it may be converting my ...