Discussion On The TEXT Datatype And ASP
Sep 22, 1998
OK, I`ve been researching the use of the TEXT datatype all day and would
like opinions on what I`ve found.
First, a little background. I have been tasked with writing an ASP
application to handle the display of FAQs for a company`s products. I would
like to store all info in a table much like
faqID int
question TEXT
answer TEXT
Simple enough, right? I then tried to create a stored procedure to add a
new FAQ and all hell broke loose. ASP would not pass anything larger than
255 chars to the stored procedure.
I read in the "ADO and SQL Server Developer`s Guide" from Microsoft about
using varchar datatypes of 255 chars (instead of TEXT) and chunking large
text up to fit in these smaller datatypes. This seems like a lot of work.
I also read in "Inside SQL Server 6.5" that "The text datatype is sometimes
awkward to work with. Many functions don`t operate against text, stored
procedures are limited in what they can do with text, and some tools don`t
deal with it well." (page 632). This statement concerns me greatly. How
are stored procedures limited in dealing with TEXT? Do the standard SQL
UPDATE and INSERT commands work or must READTEXT and UPDATETEXT be used
instead?
I guess my question is, what is the best way to accomplish this? I have a
feeling that others have had to do this before. Is SQL Server not meant to
handle large textual objects? Is chunking the best way to go? Will version
7.0 handle this scenario better?
Any help greatly appreciated!
--Matt Richmond
MenoX Technologies, Inc.
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Feb 25, 2008
Hi guys..
i have so doubts in my mind and that i want to discuss with you guys... Can i use more then 5/6 fields in a table with datatype of Text as u know Text can store maximu data... ? acutally i am trying to store a very long strings values into the all fields. it's just popup into my mind that might be table structer would not able to store that my amount of data when u use more then 5/6 text datatypes...
and another thing... is which one is better to use as data type "Text" or "varchar(max)"... ?
if any article to read more about these thing,, can you refere to me...
Thanks and looking forward.-MALIK
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Jul 31, 2006
hello all!!! how are you all?
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Nov 13, 2001
Hi Everybody,
From the BOL, what I understood is, Text Datatype can accept more characters than 'char' & 'varchar' datatypes. There is no limitation like 8000 characters(what we hv in 'char' & 'varchar').
But I am surprised I am not able to add more than 8000 characters to my text datatype. Can anybody guide me how to do this?. Any help is appreciated.
tks in advance,
Sri
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Feb 21, 2007
hi
i have a column type text i want to perform split functionality that is not currenctly availablein mssql server 2000.
to achieve this i have to used len() , left() right() and substring() functions incase of varchar datatype.. but len(), right() and left() functions are not supported for text datatype....
is anyone have ant solution to this problem....
thanks in advance
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Feb 14, 2008
I have to create Sum() in SSRS for my report. My field data type is TEXT and i can not create sum function in ssrs. I can not make change to data type since it is linked table in access database. Is there any way to sum text data type???.
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Jul 20, 2005
I have a problem within a procedure I am working on. I would like toprocess every column in a table in a cursor. Now to my problem, Ican't save a column of type text into a cursor variable. It's notallowed to use datafields of type text in this context. I also thinkthat I runned in to a simular kind of problem when trying to use textcolumns in triggers.Is there a way to evade this problem or is the only solutions to putthe text colum value into a varchar(8000)?Regards,Jenny
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Oct 25, 2006
Hello, I am writing a sproc and am getting this error: Any ideas? Thanks!!Msg 402, Level 16, State 1, Procedure InsertUserPreferences, Line 18The data types text and text are incompatible in the equal to operator.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------create procedure InsertUserPreferences(@PublisherServer text)asbeginif exists(Select Preference_StringList from USER_Preference where Preference_StringList = @PublisherServer)begin--UPDATEexec dbo.uProc_USER_Preference end
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Jun 7, 2000
I need to replicate a table with datetime,char and text datatypes.Is it possible to replicate text datatypes?What is the alternate if not?It should be merge replication.Please reply.
Thanks.
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May 24, 1999
I am trying to use the TEXT datatype for a column to hold large amounts of ascii data.
Creating the table from script I use:
create table mytable
(
firstcolvarchar(30) not null,
secondcolTEXT not null
)
go
The field will not accept strings in length over 16 chars. I looked at the table design in the enterprise manager and it shows 16 chars as the width.
I tried creating the table with TEXT(32000) but I get "The size (32000) given to the column 'secondcol' exceeds the maximum. The largest size allowed is 8000." I thought that TEXT fields are what you use when the length is over 8000. What do I need to do to enable this type of data storage? thanks in advance.
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Jan 23, 2005
Hello all ,I tried to insert text datatype by using storedprocedures but I couldn't do it ,anyone has any clue or idea ,sincerely youres
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Sep 9, 2005
I'm trying to do a simple search for any record that has an empty 'dsc' field. There isn't a NULL character in there, just a SPACE character. The 'dsc' field is a description field so it's datatype is TEXT.
Code:
SELECT id FROM leads WHERE dsc<>''
Normally I can do a VARCHAR(50) like that and get the results I'm looking for. When I do this on a TEXT datatype I get this error:
The text, ntext, and image data types cannot be compared or sorted, except when using IS NULL or LIKE operator.
I I tried a couple of things, but it's not getting me the correct results.
Code:
SELECT id FROM leads WHERE dsc NOT LIKE '% %'
SELECT id FROM leads WHERE dsc NOT LIKE '% '
SELECT id FROM leads WHERE dsc NOT LIKE ' %'
Please shed some light on this.. thanks!
Edited @ 12:08 PM
After some research I found an unconventional way of beating the system. If you have a more conventional way I would still like to see it. A quick fix is using DATALENGTH() function to compare the data. Basically if there are any characters besides NULL and space then the data length will be more than zero.
Code:
SELECT id FROM leads WHERE DATALENGTH(dsc)=0
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d..._da-db_4ep4.asp
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Oct 13, 2006
Now, what does THIS mean??
"Data types text and text are incompatible in the equal to operator"
(I'm doing a CAST() to convert a quoted string to
Text, which is the data type of a column)
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Apr 24, 2015
I have a field with a datatype of text. In SQL it looks like:
Body(text,null)
This field is used for notes. For certain records users will enter a date.
20150425
I'm looking to do a select statement that will grab only those records with a date and make them an int field. This doesn't seem to work.
select convert(int, body)
from b
where left(body,2)='20'
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Oct 25, 2006
Hello, I am writing a sproc and am getting this error: Any ideas? Thanks!!
Msg 402, Level 16, State 1, Procedure InsertUserPreferences, Line 18
The data types text and text are incompatible in the equal to operator.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
create procedure InsertUserPreferences
(
@PublisherServer text
)
as
begin
if exists(Select Preference_StringList from USER_Preference where Preference_StringList = @PublisherServer)
begin
--UPDATE
exec dbo.uProc_USER_Preference
end
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Oct 12, 2006
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Mar 12, 2003
I've created a stored procedure that converts an input string in richtext format (input as type TEXT) to plain text. I would like to be able to return this newly converted string, but I need to have some way of storing it in a local variable. My problem is that since I can't use the TEXT datatype as a local variable, I have no way of storing the large amounts of text I converted within the procedure. The VARCHAR(8000) just isn't large enough for my purposes. Anyone have any suggestions on how to go about doing this?
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Apr 20, 2004
Hi,
I require a column to be created with CHECK constraint NOT NULL which has TEXT datatype. But SQL Server will not allow CHECK constraints for the columns which has TEXT datatype. How can I solve this problem ? Is there any other alternative for this ?
With Warm Regards,
Sam.
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Dec 20, 2005
Hello. I using a simply SELECT statement to retrieve some data from aSQL SERVER via an ODBC connection. I had to go from VARCHAR to TEXTbecause the amount of data. Anyway, my SQL statements worked just finewhen I was using VARCHAR, but now since I am using TEXT, I am onlyreceiving part of the content back. Do I have to do some sort ofspecial Casting or something if I want to get all the content back?It's over 8,000 characters. Thank you very much. I have racking mybrain on this for a while.
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Jul 20, 2005
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i write a small web application to save word files in sql server and i store it as an image datatype
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Jun 27, 2005
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Nov 12, 2001
Hi Everybody,
I have a table with one column of text data type. This table contains around 1200 records(each row is 60 characters only). My task is, I have to append all these records into a single record(Concatenation of records from other table) to another table.
For that I have created table(destination table) with one column of text datatype. Using the 'UPDATETEXT' function I am able to append 133 records(each row of 60 characters) from the other table into a single row of my destination table. After that I am not able to append my records further. It is giving the following error.
"
Server: Msg 7135, Level 16, State 4, Procedure gene1_proc, Line 26
Deletion length 60 is not in the range of available text, ntext, or image data. The statement has been terminated.
"
Why I have created 'text' instead of char or varchar datatype is, it can accept more than 8000 characters. But here in my case it is not accepting more than 8000 characters. The problem is coming from 134 (133*60 = 7980 characters) records onwards.
Can anybody guide me how to proceed with this?.
tks in advance,
Sam
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4) Can encrypted XML data be full-text indexed?
So I'm diving into the documentation now, but if anybody out there already knows whether the answer to any of these questions is "No", please save me some time.
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Jul 23, 2005
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Dec 12, 2005
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Jul 20, 2005
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Jul 20, 2005
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Jan 17, 2008
HI,
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AS
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GO
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Dec 15, 2003
I tryed to update tables part of my MSDE database, using the SqlDataAdapter.Update() method. It worked fine untill I tryed to update a table that has a Column with the Text SQL DataType. It didn't work. The error was :
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Is there a way to do it ?
Thanks,
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Dec 6, 2004
Hello!
I am trying to run a query on an SQL-server database:
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noccy
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May 1, 2015
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