title: Avoiding code change with Microsoft SQLServer and Unicode
body: <p>How can you get MSSQL server to accept Unicode data by default into a VARCHAR or NVARCHAR column?</p>
  
  <p>I know that you can do it by placing a N in front of the string to be placed in the field but to by quite honest this seems a bit archaic in 2008 and particuarily with using SQL Server 2005.</p>