>Also, I think text column values are always stored outside of the row, because of the massive upper size limit they have.
Ah. I read in BOL that they can be stored in the row. My mistake. But you would need to have a REALLY good reason to do this, IMHO.
Except for not being able to search on them (as mentioned before) I have never - repeat, never - had a problem using text data types.
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