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What is the difference between varchar and varchar(max) datatypes?

Answer Posted / Shashank Mohan Shukla

'varchar' is a fixed-length string data type that stores up to 8000 characters. 'varchar(max)' is a variable-length string data type that can store up to 2^31 - 1 characters.

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