Difference between different string types in SQL Server?

Question

What is the difference between char, nchar, ntext, nvarchar, text and varchar in SQL?

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Answer 1

• 'n' represents support for unicode characters.
• char - specifies string with fixed length storage. Space allocated with or without data present.
• varchar - Varying length storage. Space is allocated as much as length of data in column.
• text - To store huge data. The space allocated is 16 bytes for column storage.

Additionally - text and ntext have been deprecated for varchar(max) and nvarchar(max)