nvarchar Questions

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I have a nvarchar column in one of my tables. Now I need to convert that column values to INT type.. I have tried using cast(A.my_NvarcharColumn as INT) and convert (int, N'A.my_NvarcharCo...
Medallist asked 19/10, 2012 at 5:22

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In a slightly heated discussion on TDWTF a question arose about the size of varchar columns in a DB. For example, take a field that contains the name of a person (just name, no surname). It'...
Ricciardi asked 11/8, 2009 at 16:18

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Is it just that nvarchar supports multibyte characters? If that is the case, is there really any point, other than storage concerns, to using varchars?
Deanndeanna asked 27/9, 2008 at 19:34

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I have table contains three columns. If I select NVARCHAR(MAX) column in my select statement, I see poor performance. Is it possible to create index on a NVARCHAR(MAX) column?. CREATE TABLE TEST (...
Taryntaryne asked 13/12, 2018 at 16:58

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I have a SQL Server 2008 database that stores millions of rows. There are several NVARCHAR columns that will never exceed the current max length of the column, nor get close to it due to applicatio...
Davenport asked 18/8, 2015 at 21:19

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In SQL Server (2018 I think? I don't know how to tell) my variable isn't working in WHERE clauses for NVARCHAR. The comparison should return values but it returns nothing. If I just type the declar...
Came asked 18/11, 2022 at 2:46

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I have a column in my SQL-2005 database that used to be a varchar(max), but it has been changed to an nvarchar(max). Now I need to update my hibernate mapping file to reflect the change, and this ...
Nagey asked 8/7, 2009 at 17:18

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I want to create a view which will display the info from two tables joined by different type fields. The one field is nvarchar and the other one is int. I know i need to convert one type in the oth...
Magniloquent asked 29/4, 2013 at 15:34

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I want insert all rows of a table into another table, and I also want convert a nvarchar field into bigint, but when I use convert(bigint, col1) SQL Server shows an error: Error converting data ...
Cloyd asked 29/4, 2011 at 6:7

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I have a problem and i dont know how to fix it. I have a simple table in database CREATE TABLE [dbo].[home] ( [Id] INT NOT NULL, [text] NTEXT NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED ([Id] ASC) ); ...
Pepsinate asked 22/1, 2014 at 20:35

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Is there a rule when we must use the Unicode types? I have seen that most of the European languages (German, Italian, English, ...) are fine in the same database in VARCHAR columns. I am looking...
Nathalienathan asked 4/3, 2009 at 21:9

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I've read all about varchar versus nvarchar. But I didn't see an answer to what I think is a simple question. How do you determine the length of your nvarchar column? For varchar it's very simple: ...
Diva asked 21/1, 2014 at 13:35

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Summary: The EXEC sp_executesql @code fails for the content longer than 4000 in the @code, but the @code is not truncated to 4000 unicode characters. I am observing the problem on SQL Server 2014 ...
Pumpkin asked 29/9, 2016 at 13:16

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I have defined a stored procedure that has a parameter of type NVARCHAR(max) and I process that string in my stored procedure. I know that max of nvarchar is 4000. But I have passed a string with 5...
Grandfatherly asked 25/12, 2012 at 12:4

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There are multiple posts on both SO and other sites which clearly state that the maximum length of nvarchar(max) is 2GB. However, I see also much confusion in both internet and real life that it ac...
Arpeggio asked 29/3, 2019 at 10:16

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I am trying to insert ≤ and ≥ into a symbol table where the column is of type nvarchar. Is this possible or are these symbols not allowed in SQL Server?
Moneyed asked 19/8, 2012 at 17:42

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Consider the following table where one of the columns is of type nullable NVARCHAR: CREATE TABLE CHARACTER_SET_MISMATCH_TEST ( ID NUMBER(10) NOT NULL, VALUE NVARCHAR2(32) ); Now, I want to ins...
Hadwyn asked 20/7, 2017 at 16:3

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What are the advantages and disadvantages of using the nvarchar(max) vs. NText data types in SQL Server? I don't need backward compatibility, so it is fine that nvarchar(max) isn't supported in old...
Relational asked 25/1, 2010 at 16:54

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I'm working with a Java web application backed by a Microsoft SQL Server. I have used nvarchar columns and my plan is to support Unicode characters. So in my JDBC layer I have used getNString() met...
Discontinuance asked 19/4, 2018 at 11:49

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When inserting strings in an oracle database, some national characters are replaced with question marks, even though they are inserted in an NCHAR or NVARCHAR column - that should be able to handle...
Jamesjamesian asked 28/6, 2011 at 16:22

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I am trying to convert a TIMESTAMP field in a table to a string so that it can be printed or executed as part of dynamic SQL. SSMS is able to do it, so there must be a built-in method to do it. How...
Demarco asked 7/12, 2016 at 10:5

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In SqlServer we can use NVarchar(MAX) but this is not possible in sqlite. What is the maximum size I can give for Nvarchar(?)?
Baudelaire asked 30/1, 2011 at 15:46

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I'm working on a database for a small web app at my school using SQL Server 2005. I see a couple of schools of thought on the issue of varchar vs nvarchar: Use varchar unless you deal with a lot ...
Teledu asked 29/8, 2008 at 21:41

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If there are 2 columns in database, eg. code varchar(3) name nvarchar(50) How to tell hibernate to pass varchar for searching by code? In the hibernate mappings string is mapped to nvarchar and...
Impoverished asked 20/8, 2009 at 15:0

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In my table LoginDate 2013-08-29 13:55:48 The loginDate column's datatype is nvarchar(150) I want to convert the logindate column into date time format using SQL command Expected result. ...
Statant asked 7/10, 2013 at 7:14

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