Display Over 256 Characters For VARCHAR(3500) Field
Jan 12, 2006
Hopefully, someone can help me.
I am working with a database that contains multiple fields within the tables that are being used for Clinical notes. The fields are defined as VARCHAR(3500). But when I try to extract data (either through Query Analyzer or Crystal Reports), only the first 256 characters are displayed. I ran a query to give me the length of the maximum entry size which returned 2722 characters, yet only 256 are displayed.
How do I go about extracting ALL of the data from this field? Any help is much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
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May 9, 2005
I have a table in which 2 of the fields are defined as TEXT. It was determined that neither of these fields would have to hold more than 3500 characters, so I changed both fields to VARCHAR (3500). The problem is that any query against this table takes 20 seconds to run. When the fields were defined as data type TEXT, queries ran lick-itty-split!? I would have expected just the opposite. Can someone explain this behavior?
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