MSSQL's SQL syntax like that found in MSSQL 2012 is very outdated. Many old rusty parts of MSSQL date back to the Sybase, MSSQL is a fork of it. Also WinNT (inc

MSSQL's SQL syntax like that found in MSSQL 2012 is very outdated. Many old rusty parts of MSSQL date back to the Sybase, MSSQL is a fork of it. Also WinNT (incl Win10), MSSQL and most other MSFT software is UCS-2 which they often mislabel as UTF-16. UCS-2 cannot manage emoticons and other newer unicode characters. Whereas everyone on the planet decided on UTF-8. So everything OP mentioned in the article is true.