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Support NVARCHAR

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
mysql, php
Domain
databases

Research direction

Start by reading the linked MySQL string-type syntax documentation and the referenced phpMyAdmin discussion, then trace how this parser handles existing string types. Done means valid NVARCHAR syntax is accepted without breaking existing SQL parsing; the issue does not name specific files or tests.

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Description

enhancement kind/support
Dominant language
PHP
Stars
485
Forks
119
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

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