>>Hi,
>>
>>I think I have known this (or asked this before) but forgot (sorry). How do I cast an empty string into a memo type column when sending SQL Select to SQL Server? For example, in VFP I would do it like the following:
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>>select *, cast( '' as MEMO) As MyMemoFld from MyTable
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>>What should be in place of MEMO in the case of SQL Server? TIA.
>
>Everything with length bigger than 255 will be converted to memo:
>
>select *,
> cast( '' as varchar(256)) As MyMemoFld
>from MyTable
>
>----
>select *,
> cast( '' as varchar(max)) As MyMemoFld
>from MyTable
>
Thank you, Borislav.
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