- char(n) : Fixed-length string with Maximum 8,000 characters
- varchar(n) : Variable-length string with Maximum 8,000 characters
- varchar(max) : Variable-length string with Maximum 1,073,741,824 characters
- Text : Variable-length string with Maximum 2GB of text data or maximum length of 2^31 - 1 characters
Unicode
- nchar(n) : Fixed-length Unicode data with Maximum 4,000 characters.
- nvarchar(n) : Variable-length Unicode data with Maximum 4,000 characters.
- nvarchar(max): Variable-length Unicode data with Maximum 536,870,912 characters.
- ntext : Variable-length Unicode data. Maximum 2GB of text data or a maximum length of 2^30 - 1 characters