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To use a Unicode character set in SQL, one can specify it when defining character data types or collations in database tables. This allows for the storage and retrieval of multilingual data ...

So, I inherited an ASP 3.0 web app that I just recently realized has a character ... is that Unicode data submitted via ASP pages using UTF-8 encoding ends up not being recognized by SQL Server ...

To use a Unicode character set in SQL, one can specify it when defining character data types or collations in database tables. This allows for the storage and retrieval of multilingual data ...

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 ...

Doing a deployment last night, I ran into an issue around indexing performance around SQL columns of type varchar. Varchar is the ANSI version of character data – storing as 8-bits, while nvarchar is ...