>OK, just out of curiousity, what is the largest ntext value that you have? You can use the DATALENGTH() return the amount of data in a column:
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>SELECT DATALENGTH(textcolumn) FROM thetable
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>Did you try running DBCC CHECKTABLE and DBCC CLEANTABLE?
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>As a last resort, you may have to copy the text data out of the table, drop the column, and then copy it back in.
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>-Mike

I think you're right. Something wrong with the table.
We have identical table with same amount of rows in another database and it's only 2.3GB size!
BTW, I can't find DBCC CLEANTABLE in MS SQL 7.0...
Thanks!