NCHAR

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NCHAR is a fixed length data type that can be used to store NLS or multibyte character set data. The maximum size is 2000 bytes per row or 2000 characters.

Example

CREATE TABLE t1(c1 NCHAR);

INSERT INTO t1 VALUES( N'any nchar literal' );

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