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Rule 14

Rule 14 in the wild

April 30, 2020 / Robert Harris / Leave a comment

“What if we just used NVARCHAR(4000) as the default datatype parameter for any query, regardless of what datatype the table has in it – like numbers or dates?”

Brent Ozar with an interesting example on why (almost) everything could be nvarchar.

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