New Data Types

Microsoft® SQL Server™ includes these new data type-related items:

• The maximum length of character data and binary strings in SQL Server has been expanded to 8,000 bytes. For more information, see binary and varbinary or char and varchar.
• The cursor data type for cursor variables.
• Unicode data types named nchar, nvarchar, and ntext. For more information, see nchar and nvarchar and ntext.
• The uniqueidentifier data type for storing globally unique identification numbers (GUID).