Playing with NVARCHAR in SAP HANA

Hi All,

SAP HANA supports NVARCHAR datatype. NVARCHAR (UNicode Variable Length character) is datatype, it can store both non-Unicode and Unicode (i.e. Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Marathi etc) characters. It takes 2 bytes per Unicode/Non-Unicode character. Maximum length in characters and is an integer between 1 and 5000.

Lets create one example for Ncarchar. Following script create one table "News" which has

• "ID" is Integer column (PK),
• "NDATA" is NVARCHAR(500) column, stores Unicode data, and
• "DATA" is VARCHAR(500) column, stores English version of "NDATA"

 

CREATE COLUMN TABLE NEWS ( ID INTEGER  NOT NULL , NDATA NVARCHAR(500), DATA VARCHAR(500), PRIMARY KEY ("ID"));

 

 

INSERT INTO NEWS (ID, NDATA, DATA) VALUES(1,'दिल्ली भारत की राजधानी है.', 'Delhi is capital of India.');

 

 

INSERT INTO NEWS (ID, NDATA, DATA) VALUES(2,'मुंबई महाराष्ट्राची राजधानी आहे.', 'Mumbai is capital of Maharashtra.');

and output looks like(see attached file if following picture not visible),