|  | Posted by Michael on 02/26/07 16:40 
On Feb 26, 10:26 am, "oliver" <oraus...@hotmail.com> wrote:> On 26 Feb, 15:13, "Plamen Ratchev" <Pla...@SQLStudio.com> wrote:
 >
 > > The nvarchar data type provides support for Unicode characters. This is
 > > needed if you are building an international system that must store different
 > > languages. However, if you have no need to store Unicode characters then you
 > > are better using varchar. The nvarchar data type occupies twice the space of
 > > varchar as it uses 2 bytes to encode each character.
 >
 > > HTH,
 >
 > > Plamen Ratchevhttp://www.SQLStudio.com
 >
 > varchar will support a lot of characters from different languages
 > though (depending on the collation codepage) so no need to rush into
 > doubling your storage if you dont "really" need to
 
 Plamen, Oliver Thanks a lot!
 
 Mike
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