{"id":656,"date":"2010-07-15T15:54:10","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T10:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/JitendraZaa.com\/blog\/?p=656"},"modified":"2010-07-15T15:54:10","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T10:24:10","slug":"difference-in-var-char-and-nvar-char-in-sql-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jitendrazaa.com\/blog\/sql\/sqlserver\/difference-in-var-char-and-nvar-char-in-sql-server\/","title":{"rendered":"Difference in “varchar” and “nvarchar” in SQL Server"},"content":{"rendered":"

This article explains the difference between varchar and nvarchar datatype in SQL Server.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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nVarchar<\/strong><\/td>\nVarchar<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
varchar <\/strong>stores UNICODE data.\u00a0 Means it store UNICODE or multilingual data.<\/strong><\/td>\nVarchar Stores ASCII data<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
UNICODE requires 2 bytes for each character you store. This Means single row of a single nvarchar column can only be nvarchar (4000) <\/strong>Because because of the row size limitations of Sql Server is the same as the page size limit, which is 8060 bytes<\/td>\nASCII only requires 1 byte for each character.
\nThis means a single row of a single varchar column can be varchar(8000) <\/strong>because of the row size limitations of Sql Server is the same as the page size limit, which is 8060 bytes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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What is the difference between varchar and nvarchar in MS SQL Server.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"jz_research_post":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[292],"class_list":["post-656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sqlserver","tag-sql-server"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5882,"url":"https:\/\/www.jitendrazaa.com\/blog\/sql\/sqlserver\/sql-server-read-all-files-in-directory-and-store-in-table\/","url_meta":{"origin":656,"position":0},"title":"SQL Server – Read all files in directory and store in Table","author":"Jitendra","date":"January 18, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"T-SQL Script to read all files in directory and store back in table - SQL Server","rel":"","context":"In "SQL Server"","block_context":{"text":"SQL Server","link":"https:\/\/www.jitendrazaa.com\/blog\/category\/sql\/sqlserver\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1376,"url":"https:\/\/www.jitendrazaa.com\/blog\/sql\/sqlserver\/use-of-openxml-in-sql-server\/","url_meta":{"origin":656,"position":1},"title":"Use of OPENXML in SQL Server","author":"Jitendra","date":"December 4, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"In SQL Server, OpenXML is very powerful method for the XML data manipulation. 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