Unicode native format is helpful when information must be copied from one [!INCLUDE[msCoName](../../includes/msconame-md.md)] [!INCLUDE[ssNoVersion](../../includes ...

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 ...

For example, you may have the unicode apostrophe ʼ, which is a homoglyph to the Latin single quote character '. How does SQL Server handle unicode homoglyphs? Funny you should ask. If you pass in a ...

In the world of relational databases, VARCHAR is one of the most commonly used string data types, primarily used for storing variable-length character data. However, for many beginners, the ...

With v0.5.17, Unicode SQL strings work with sqlite3 and mysql. But they do not work with MSSQL via FreeTDS or on Windows with the native client. Unicode bound parameters do work with MSSQL though, at ...