>Nice idea, but:
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>ODBC Error Message: [[Microsoft][SQL Server Native Client 11.0][SQL Server]Explicit conversion from data type text to varbinary(max) is not allowed.]
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>According to what I've been able to find online, conversion from text to varbinary(max) is implicit (hence the error above).
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>https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/functions/cast-and-convert-transact-sql#large-value-data-types
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>I've looked at SQLSETPROP() for any connection properties that might affect this, I didn't see anything that might be applicable.

Hmm, I think it worked for me a while ago:

http://blogs.lessthandot.com/index.php/datamgmt/datadesign/dealing-with-the-the-text/