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Difference between datatype char(n),varchar(n),nchar(n),nvarchar(n) in sql server?

A char datatype takes 1 byte per character. It is a fixed length character datatype i.e even though character entered are less than n,fixed memory size i.e n bytes are allocated to those characters.
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SQLServer NVARCHAR column query parameter is set as VARCHAR

Expected behavior and actual behavior: I'm researchig jOOQ Professional trial to use in our project with SQLServer 2017. When there is NVARCHAR column and when the column is used as a query parameter, ...
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while (true)

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 ...
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SQL: CHAR or VARCHAR (again...)

Another one of these choices... to go with a char or varchar for a field. Not really an issue with space since we are only looking at a couple of thousand records or so but just wondering what the ...