What does N' stands for in a SQL script ? (the one used before characters in insert script)

Question

I generated an sql script like this,

INSERT [dbo].[TableName] ([Sno], [Name], [EmployeeId], [ProjectId], [Experience]) 
VALUES (1, N\'Dave\', N\'ESD157\', N\         


        

Answer 1

N is to specify that its a string type value.

[N]'tsql_string'

Is a constant string. tsql_string can be any nvarchar or varchar data type. If the N is included, the string is interpreted as nvarchar data type.