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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