What is the maximum characters for the NVARCHAR(MAX)?

The max size for a column of type NVARCHAR(MAX) is 2 GByte of storage.

Since NVARCHAR uses 2 bytes per character, that’s approx. 1 billion characters.

Leo Tolstoj’s War and Peace is a 1’440 page book, containing about 600’000 words – so that might be 6 million characters – well rounded up. So you could stick about 166 copies of the entire War and Peace book into each NVARCHAR(MAX) column.

Is that enough space for your needs? 🙂

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