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String and Binary Types

SQL Server 2012

SQL Server 2008 R2

SQL Server supports the following string and binary types.

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binary and varbinary (Transact-SQL)

char and varchar (Transact-SQL)

nchar and nvarchar (Transact-SQL)

ntext, text, and image (Transact-SQL)

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