Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 04/27/06 10:34

rcamarda (rcamarda@cablespeed.com) writes:
> What is the N in front of the literal 'supercalifragi' do? is it a
> shortcut for cast(xxx as nvarchar())??

Sort of. N marks the literal as a Unicode literal.

The idea is not unique to SQL. I C++ you use L for the same purpose.


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