>>>I started using SQL Server with the 2005 version. And I think they still have the "old" features in SQL Server 2017; not enhanced but still there. I think so many people use TEXT that MS may have it for another 5-10 years. Which is enough for me :)
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>People still doing OK with Fox will recognize the sentiment! Meanwhile RS has suggested another cast that should survive indefinitely. But before you set about wholesale updates, might pay to perform a sanity check looking at the efficiency of the cast?

Realistically this shouldn't be a perf overhead since no real conversion has to occur - if anything it should improve performance since SQL doesn't have to figure out the actual field size after all the data has returned.

But yeah - due diligence is always a good idea regardless even if obvious. But again, we're looking at the final selector so I can't imagine that having any sort of significant overhead.

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