SQL Interview: 45 Storing UTF-8 Data

This is a post in the SQL Interview series. These aren’t trick or gotcha questions, they’re just questions designed to scope out a candidate’s knowledge around SQL Server and Azure SQL Database.

Section: Developer Level: Intro

Question:

You are writing a function that needs to process UTF-8 data. It takes one input parameter named @ValueToProcess that varies in length.

Which data type should you use for the @ValueToProcess parameter?

Answer:

In SQL Server, UTF-8 data is stored in the varchar data type.

2025-05-08