Question

I’ve got an SQL query that looks like this:

INSERT INTO DB..incident (      incident_number        --nvarchar(10) ) VALUES  (     N'I?' ) 

What does the ? do in the value statement?

EDIT:: Turns out there’s some funny business via triggers and custom datatypes that occur on insert (we’ve got a bit of a messed up DB.) Given normal settings I’ve marked the answer appropriately.

Answer 1

At the risk of sounding flippant… Nothing… It puts an I? into the field… Try this…

DECLARE @TestTable TABLE (test NVARCHAR(10))  INSERT INTO @TestTable (     test ) VALUES (      N'I?' )    SELECT *  FROM  @TestTable