If you ever need to sort character strings stored in SQL Server ... that sorts a set of data, typically stored in an array, a set, or other data structure. There are many types of sorting ...

SQL imposes some restrictions on referencing long-string columns. For more information about these restrictions, see your IBM documentation. specifies a varying-length column for character string data ...

So, I inherited an ASP 3.0 web app that I just recently realized has a character ... is that Unicode data submitted via ASP pages using UTF-8 encoding ends up not being recognized by SQL Server ...