SQL Server search in nvarchar & ntext

Question

I\'m using SQL Server 2008 as my database engine in a VS2010, C# ASP.NET web app. My project is Farsi (Persian) so I\'ve used nvarchar and ntext as

Answer 1

You should use the N' prefix to indicate that you're searching for a Unicode string:

SELECT * FROM dbo.tblArticle WHERE name LIKE N'%......%'

Otherwise, you're converting your search string back to non-Unicode and then searching....