>>>Hello,
>>>
>>>Which field type and length is appropriate to use as VFP Memo field in MSSQL?
>>>
>>>I created fields with type "text" and Fieldlength = 2^31-1, but when I query from VFP it does not return the field value, it shows blank.
>>>
>>>In MySQL I used Mediumtext which works fine with memo fields.
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>>I used text and varchar(max). I can't understand why you couldn't use text.
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>Perhaps that is a driver problem, I use DRIVER=SQL Server Native Client 10.0.
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>When I create a varchar(max) field the type shows as text:
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>

>ALTER TABLE TestTable ADD NewField varchar(max)
>SP_Columns TestTable
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>it shows:
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>Type_Name = "test"
>Precision =  2147483647
>

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>A query from VFP with the above mentioned driver shows a completely blank field, which I cannot open.
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>When I copy to a table, it creates a character field with length 0!

On the query from VFP

SELECT ... CAST(NewField AS TEXT) as NewField ... FROM TestTable