C# strings silently kill your SQL Server indexes in Dapper

Post by swasheck » Wed, Mar 11, 2026, 3:13 PM UTC

SigmundA wrote: post #45

swasheck wrote: post #44

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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-...