What is the maximum size of column in sql server?



What is the maximum size of column in sql server?..

Answer / Vipin Kumar Vaishya

The maximum size of a column in SQL Server depends on the data type. For example, varchar(max) can store up to 2^63 - 1 characters (approximately 17 billion characters), while nvarchar(max) can store approximately 900 billion characters due to Unicode encoding.

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