Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 09/04/07 22:12

Danny (adler.danny@gmail.com) writes:
> I have a varchar(255) column for storing text in english and in
> hebrew.
> It was a stupid mistake to set the data type to be varchar, because
> now I need to store text in german and francais too.
>
> Question: Is it safe to change the data type from varchar to nvarchar,
> without damaging the data that's already present?
> (I have more than 1000000 records stored...)

Provided that the collation of the column is a Hebrew collation, yes.


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