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When To Use NVARCHAR

Posted on September 9, 2011 by Melinda Cole

The Short Answer Only when you need to store multi-lingual (unicode) data.  The Nitty Gritty The fundamental unit of storage in a SQL Server database is an 8 KB page.  To paraphrase the MSDN, SQL Server reads and writes whole … Continue reading →

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