i need to store quite along description in the database, which in anyother database i would choose the data type 'text', however, can someone tell me why the length is set to just 16 in sql server..... i have seen a text field with far greater than 16 chars, set at length 16, so what does this length of 16 mean?????
also what is the max length of the text field?
thanks
Hello folks!
I have written a stored proc that selects data from this table:
A1 AA
A2 BB
B1 AAA
B2 BBB
and puts it another table in this manner:
A1 AA BB
A2 AA BB
B1 AAA BBB
B2 AAA BBB
In short, I wanted to concatenate data in the second column.
My question is for some reason, SQL Server is limiting the length of the string to only 256 characters, even though I have defined the local variables in the storeds proc as varchar(1000) and the table has that field defined as text.
Any ideas how I can get around this problem?
Thanks!
ParulV
Folks:
I would like to know the total length of data type in a table. I ran the following query. Will this give me the correct information? I also ran sp_columns <table name> and it too give the length. But There is a difference in the numbers. Am I doing something wrong and which is the correct the query or sp_column.
select sum(length) from syscolumns
where id in (select id from sysobjects
where name = 'XYZABC')
sp_columns XYZABC
Thanks !
I keep getting this error:
'The value you entered is not consistent with the data type or length of the column'
when trying to enter data into a feild, the feild type is char and the length
is 100 i'm entering text 3 words long but no where near a 100 characters long
any one know why this is happening?
Hi All,
Is there a way to check the data type and the maximum length of a field?
Sorry if this is a dumb question.
I have a SQL Server TEXT Data Type field which stores a long description.
However when I update it from C# (ASP.net) through a textbox, it seems to cut off a part of the data if the number of characters is a big size (+- more than 577 characters).
I pass the data from then textbox to a string, but as soon as I run the Create/Update stored procedure that gets passed the string field, it seems to chop off the string.
What am I doing wrong?
Should one rather use a SQL Server string field for descriptions (+-1000 characters long) or should one use the TEXT field for this purpose?
Which one's performance is better?
Hi guys, is there any way to solve my problem as title ? Assuming my stored proc is written as below :
CREATE PROC TEST
@A VARCHAR(8000) = '1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,...,5000'
AS
BEGIN
DECLARE @B nvarchar(MAX);
SET @B = 'SELECT * FROM C WHERE ID IN ( ' + @A + ')'
EXECUTE sp_executesql @B
END
GO
Hi,I would like to convert a dollar amount ($1,500) to represent Fifteenhundred dollars and 00/100 cents only for SQL reporting purposes. Isthis possible and can I incorporate the statement into an existingleft outer join query.Thanks in advance,Gavin
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I've tried to use cast in the following way, (rsbirthday is the field name, panelists is the table), but to no avail.
SELECT rsbirthday CAST(rsbirthday AS smalldatetime)
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Below is a SQL statement that shows what columns belong to a certain view. My next question is how can I get a third column that shows the column type ?
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started working on a website in ASP that use mssql, i am trying to store large ammount of text, for now its just 10kk letters, the data type is set to text in the mssql db, but when i read it back from the db, i only get 7.7k letters, i know its not an ASP problem cause i print the var holding the content before storing it in the db.
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Thanks,
Gilad Darshan
EDIT: forgot its saving the html source with the style and not only the words. fixed to the right amount of letters
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010000000000000000001164.00023 YV
02004101 1 2008-04-OLL 43456 0000000001 2008-04-08
030000100000000000000000000007.00
047890 7556 YYU 779
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Access and Crystal are not able to read these fields directly.
Any suggestions? Most information about these fields has to do with loading files but I am just moving data.
Thanks,
Ray
This is a newbie question.
How many character does a text data type of MSSQL can contain ?
Thanks a lot.
Hi All,
In the SQL Server documentation, it is said that, the text data type will contain upto 2GB size. I assumed it will save upto 2GB. But what happened is, it saves only 255 characters all others were truncated. Is there anything wrong with me? Or the wrong is with the SQL Server?
Thanks,
Amjath
visual studio 2005 what is the differences between text, varchar and nvarchar data types in ms sql server? when and when not to use them?
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Has anyone experienced this and knows how to allow up to the 2,147,483,647 characters. Is it anything to do with another SQL Server setting or variable that needs to be changed
Thank you in advance for helping on this.
Regards
Steve Fouracre
Steve Fouracre
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The script tries to split parameter data into name and value. Unfortunately, I have several reports that are passing parameters that are very large. One example has over 65,000 characters all in the normal "¶mname=value&parm2=value..." format.
The code in the script works fine until it gets to one of these very large parameter sets. I have figured out what is causing the issue. Here's some code:
Dim paramBlob as Byte()
paramBlob = Row.BlobColumn.GetBlobData(0, Row.BlobColumn.Length)
The second parameter of the .GetBlobData function takes an INTEGER as its count! Therefore, no matter what kind of datatype I pass to the string that the script will later split, it will be limited to 32767 characters.
THIS IS A PROBLEM!!!
Does anyone know a workaround for this issue? I need all of the parameter data to be reported, and I would hate to have to skip over rows like this. Also, if I'm missing something, please fill me in!
Thanks for your help in advance,
LOSTlover
hi all
does anybody know why the fields of my db with the type "text" can store max. 64 characters? i thought fields of the type "text" could save unlimited characters. is it any wrong setting?i'm using visual web developer with sql server express
I encounter this particular error.
Exception Details: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: The data types varchar and text are incompatible in the equal to operator.
Line 21: Dim reader As SqlDataReader = command.ExecuteReader()
This is the first time I'm trying out with MS SQL so I'm abit lost. I hope my code is correct and I've did a little search. I did not set "Text" in my database, I use int and varchar. Here's the affected part of my code and the database. Dim password As String = ""
Dim querystring As String = "SELECT Password FROM Member WHERE Username = @username"
'Dim conn as SqlConnection
Using conn As New SqlConnection(ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings("mainconnect").ConnectionString)
Dim command As New SqlCommand(querystring, conn)
command.Parameters.Add("@username", SqlDbType.Text)
command.Parameters("@username").Value = txtLogin.Text
conn.Open()
Dim reader As SqlDataReader = command.ExecuteReader()
While reader.Read()
password = reader("Password").ToString()
End While
reader.Close()
End Using
My database:
User_ID int(4)
Username varchar(50)
Password varchar(255)
Email varchar(50)
Any ideas?
I was wondering if someone could clear this up for me...
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Please do let me know.
Thank you,
John
Hi All,
I have the code below on Sql 2k table with the column Descriptivetext defined as
Text Data Type. The table has Path and Page as the PK
I need to set a trigger to update Desciptivetext in other rows with the same path
when a one of them chnages.
Whenever I run the code, no row is updated
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[AB] (
[PATH] [varchar] (255) NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED ,
[PAGE] [varchar] (60) NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED ,
[DESCRIPTIVETEXT] [text] NULL
) ON [PRIMARY] TEXTIMAGE_ON [PRIMARY]
GO
CREATE TRIGGER [Update_Staging_Test] ON [dbo].[AB]
INSTEAD OF UPDATE
AS
Declare @TextPointer as Varbinary (16), @NewTextPointer as Varbinary (16), @Path
varchar(255), @Page as varchar(60), @DescriptiveText as varchar(7000)
If Update(DescriptiveText)
--Get the Path of the record from Inserted
Select @Page = Page, @Path = Path , @DescriptiveText = Cast(DescriptiveText as
Varchar(7000))
from Inserted
UPDATEAB
SETDescriptiveText = Cast (@DescriptiveText as Text)
WHEREPath = @Path
Rgds
GERI
Hi,
I am using following query to get insereted records from a table, which is containing a column, having text datatype.
'SELECT * INTO #TEMP FROM INSERTED'
Then obviously it gives error.
Wat if i want to get all the columns from inserted table excluding the text datatype column, without giving the column names.
Thanks & Regards.
Shabber.
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Any help would be appreciated.
Dennis Geasan
I have a table named 'Documents' with a field named 'DocumentData' which is of the datatype Text.
I am using the following statements in a stored procedure which on execution gives errors:
DECLARE @DocData VARCHAR(100)
DECLARE @OrderID INT
IF ISNULL(@DocData, '') <> ''
BEGIN
IF EXISTS( SELECT DocumentData from Documents where OrderID=@OrderID and DocumentData = @DocData)
RaisError ('Document ignored.', 16, 1)
The errors that i am getting are the following :
Msg 279, Level 16, State 3, Procedure SPDocs_LoadData, Line 41
The text, ntext, and image data types are invalid in this subquery or aggregate expression.
Msg 306, Level 16, State 1, Procedure SPDocs_LoadData, Line 41
The text, ntext, and image data types cannot be compared or sorted, except when using IS NULL or LIKE operator.
Can anyone tell me how to rectify this? Basically i am trying to find out whether @DocData passed in the stored procedure matches the value in the table.
Thanks.
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Thanks
Hi everybody,
In our datbase we have a table with text data type.Help me if anybody knows how to insert text data into text data type of sql server.
i am able to modify and retrive but i am not able to insert text. please if u have idea, please give me reply asap.
Thanks,
Giri