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Hi,

Good that you found the solution. However, few other things in this post that made me wonder:
- do you really need fixed length strings (NCHAR)? Using variable length strings (NVARHCAR) would most likely make it easier to handle the data and probably also save space since the string doesn't need to be padded with empty chars

- the question sounded like you're going to concatenate different information pieces into a single column. If this really is the case you should avoid that solution since it's going to cause problems sooner or later (typically sooner) and require more complex logic (using substrings, fixed lengths, possibly delimiters etc etc). If the requirement is given, perhaps it would still be reasonable to talk it over one more time. Of course if you don't have the possibility to modify the application itself, it's a different situation but based on your post I understood that modifications are possible.

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