# 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 ...

CHAR and VARCHAR are also fixed-length and variable-length character data types that can store non-Unicode data; however, they use the default character set of the database which may not support ...

We would like to suport unicode, and we read that since sql server 2019 and azure db it's possible with -UTF8 collations (default in azure). If we configure EF6 with nvarchar datatype (the default) we ...

So I have this page. The page is taking form-submitted data and saving it to a SQL Server database via stored procedure.<br><br>Just one problem - every time I execute the code, I get the ...

Varchar is the ANSI version of character data – storing as 8-bits, while nvarchar is Unicode, storing as 16 bits. For this database, we typically opt in for varchar, as it supports a US chain of ...

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 ...