SQL Server allows you to create dynamic SQL statements. The statements use a SQL string varchar data type, then you execute the command. Even though the SQL value is a string, SQL Server executes ...

SQL Server 2000 made this possible with the use of OPENXML, which allows you to store data into a VARCHAR data type and pass it around. This became even easier in SQL Server 2005 with the advent ...

The new VARCHAR data type with UTF-8 encoding should require less space, and filter and sorting operations should also run significantly faster. The API has been adapted accordingly. A VARCHAR ...