alt Hacker Newsthe data types were introduced with SQL Server 7 (1998) so i’m not sure it’s accurate to state that it’s considered as the new thing.
the data types were introduced with SQL Server 7 (1998) so i’m not sure it’s accurate to state that it’s considered as the new thing.
UTF-8 was introduced in SQL Server 2019:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/sql-server/what-s-new-...