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.

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, ...

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 ...

I'm working with a <B>very</B> large DB in MS SQL 2000. All char fields are defined as varchar. Now, I am trying to add support for Kanji, in particular, and later Spanish, German, and eventually ...