i.e. if I create a VARCHAR(50) field, what happens if I try to assign it a value that’s 100 characters long?
Will SQL Server let me do this? Is it somehow less efficient?
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i.e. if I create a VARCHAR(50) field, what happens if I try to assign it a value that’s 100 characters long?
Will SQL Server let me do this? Is it somehow less efficient?
It will emit an error, saying that the string or binary data would be truncated.