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Difference Between Char and Varchar and Nvarchar in SQL

The document compares char, varchar, and nvarchar data types in SQL. Nvarchar stores Unicode data and uses 2 bytes per character, so nvarchar(4000) takes the same space as varchar(8000). Varchar stores ASCII data. Nchar and nvarchar should be used if storing multilingual data. Char is for fixed-length data and varchar is for variable-length data. Querying nvarchar and nchar is slower than char and varchar.

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Difference Between Char and Varchar and Nvarchar in SQL

The document compares char, varchar, and nvarchar data types in SQL. Nvarchar stores Unicode data and uses 2 bytes per character, so nvarchar(4000) takes the same space as varchar(8000). Varchar stores ASCII data. Nchar and nvarchar should be used if storing multilingual data. Char is for fixed-length data and varchar is for variable-length data. Querying nvarchar and nchar is slower than char and varchar.

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Difference between char and varchar and nvarchar in sql


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September 14, 2019

The biggest concern is that  nvarchar  uses 2 bytes per


character, whereas  varchar  uses 1.

nvarchar(4000)  uses the same amount of storage space


as  varchar(8000).

Nvarchar stores UNICODE data. If you have requirements to


store UNICODE or multilingual data, nvarchar is the
choice. Varchar stores ASCII data and should be your data
type of choice for normal use

"Unicodes" means 16-bit character encoding scheme allowing


characters from lots of other languages like Arabic,
Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, to be encoded in a single
character set.

Some experts recommends nvarchar always because: since all


modern operating systems and development platforms use
Unicode internally, using nvarchar rather than varchar,
will avoid encoding conversions every time you read from
or write to the database

If you are sure about the fixed length of the data that
would be captured for any specific column then go for CHAR
data type and if the data may vary then go for VARCHAR.

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If your column will store a fixed-length Unicode


characters like French, Arabic and so on characters then
go for NCHAR. If the data stored in a column is Unicode
and can vary in length, then go for NVARCHAR

Querying to NCHAR or NVARCHAR is a bit slower then CHAR or


VARCHAR.

non-Unicode (char, varchar, and text)


Unicode (nchar, nvarchar, and ntext)

varchar size:

nvarchar size:

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