I have declared a column of type NVARCHAR(MAX) in SQL Server 2008, what would be its exact maximum characters having the MAX as the length?
I have declared a column of type NVARCHAR(MAX) in SQL Server 2008, what would
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I have declared a column of type NVARCHAR(MAX) in SQL Server 2008, what would be its exact maximum characters having the MAX as the length?
The max size for a column of type
NVARCHAR(MAX)is 2 GByte of storage.Since
NVARCHARuses 2 bytes per character, that’s approx. 1 billion characters.Leo Tolstoj’s War and Peace is a 1’440 page book, containing about 600’000 words – so that might be 6 million characters – well rounded up. So you could stick about 166 copies of the entire War and Peace book into each
NVARCHAR(MAX)column.Is that enough space for your needs? 🙂