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What is the N in front of the string?

 
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Old November 13th, 2005, 08:58 AM
shumaker@cs.fsu.edu
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Default What is the N in front of the string?

When I'm writing query statements in Access it adds an N in front of my
strings. What does this denote?


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Old November 13th, 2005, 08:58 AM
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could you post an example of this? I've never seen what you describe.

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Old November 13th, 2005, 08:58 AM
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shumaker@cs.fsu.edu wrote:[color=blue]
> When I'm writing query statements in Access it adds an N in front of my
> strings. What does this denote?
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I assume you're using an ADP.

It's a casting identifier for SQL Server:

'Hello' is taken as varchar
N'Hello' is taken nvarchar (unicode)


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