To use a Unicode character set in SQL, specify the character set when creating or altering a database, table, or column. For example, you can use "UTF8" or "UTF16" to indicate Unicode encoding.

With the first public preview of SQL Server 2019, we announced support for the widely used UTF-8 character encoding as an import or export encoding, and as database-level or column-level collation for ...

If you ever need to sort character strings stored in SQL Server fields, check out this demonstration of how to write a common sorting algorithm using SQL Server TSQL code.

Erfahren Sie, wie Sie Daten aus verschiedenen Sprachen, Skripts oder Symbolen mithilfe eines Unicode-Zeichensatzes in SQL speichern und bearbeiten und häufige Fallstricke vermeiden.

Troubleshooting SQL index performance on varchar columns 18 July, 2012. It was a Wednesday. Doing a deployment last night, I ran into an issue around indexing performance around SQL columns of type ...