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19/01/2008 18:24:13
 
 
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19/01/2008 10:47:53
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Forum:
ASP.NET
Category:
Databases
Title:
Environment versions
Environment:
VB 8.0
OS:
Windows XP SP2
Database:
Visual FoxPro
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01283165
Message ID:
01283331
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11
>If you migrated to SQL 2000, text was the only datatype that would make sense to use for a VFP memo field, because of it's almost unlimited size (well, right around 2GB).
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>Now, with SQL 2005, there's a new version of varchar, specified as VARCHAR(MAX) and that's what you should be using now. I don't know why they came up with this MAX concept. It stores the same amount of data as the old text data type, but text is going to be removed in the future. Straight out of BOL:
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>ntext, text, and image data types will be removed in a future version of Microsoft SQL Server. Avoid using these data types in new development work, and plan to modify applications that currently use them. Use nvarchar(max), varchar(max), and varbinary(max) instead.

Thanks
Michel Fournier
Level Extreme Inc.
Designer, architect, owner of the Level Extreme Platform
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