Column Size For Ntext
Aug 11, 2005Hi,
Please help me to find out the ntext column size in a table.
Thanks in advance
Regards
Karthik
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Way To Retrieve Actual Size Of Ntext Column In Native Code?
Aug 3, 2007Howdy folks! (I feel im creating too many topics...but all my questions are unrelated :-/)
Dev environment: SSCE, Native c++ OLE code, Win CE 5
I have a routine that calculates the size of a set of columns in order to create a byte buffer for retrieving data from an IRowset and inserting it into a custom class. This method works great for all data types except ntext. When I look at the column information from an ntext field, the DBCOLUMNINFO::ulColumnSize member holds 536,870,911 (the max length of an ntext type). Obviously I dont want to allocate 1GB of memory for each ntext column. Is there anyway (natively) to determine the actual number of characters in a field?
Maximum Size For Ntext Type In Sql Server
Mar 29, 2006I couldn't insert more than 4000 charachters in "ntext" type in SQL server. Is there anyway, i can increase the size or any suggestions?
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Jan 22, 2006I had several databases under sqlserver ce 2.0 (in my Pocket PC) which contained ntext fields. The size of the databases varies from 50,000 to 700,000 records. The size of an ntext field is from 4 bytes to 2 megabytes.
When I recreated my databases under sql server 2005 mobile on my desktop using VS2005 (see my post just under this one), I saw a big difference between the old and new database sizes. This problem was mentioned in one of the posts in this forum and the reply was to replace ntext data with ncharvar type.
Since most of my data was longer than 4000 bytes (which is the limit for nvarchar type), I couldn't use this suggestion. Instead, I changed my ntext type to image type and used a GetByte conversion.
No change! The size of the new database is still 50 % larger than the original. Since the difference is around 300 MB, this is an unacceptable thing.
Now, I either wait from somebody to suggest a new solution (apart from keeping the ntext data in a separate binary file and keep index of the records of this file in the records of sql database) or, most preferably, have
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for the web page that displays it, i want to show the first 200 characters and then have a "more..." link to bring up the full text.
i'd like to create a stored procedure that takes the left 200 characters and copies them to a ShortText column (NVarChar) for initial display and then id like to set a bit column to indicate if the length of the NText column is greater than 200.
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Hi,
I have an SSIS Package where I am looping through all input columns and creating an XML out of it. The Problem comes in one of the tables where I have an Ntext column. Instead of giving me the value of the column, it gives me
"Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Pipeline.BlobColumn"
I am trying to get the string value from this blob column. For that I am using the below code. Can you please point me to where I am going wrong. I am not very good in VB so I might be doing some casting error.
Dim blobCol As Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Pipeline.BlobColumn
Dim ByteVal As String
For Each column In Me.ComponentMetaData.InputCollection(0).InputColumnCollection
columnValue = rowType.GetProperty(column.Name)
Select Case column.DataType
Case (DataType.DT_NTEXT)
blobCol = DirectCast(columnValue.GetValue(Row, Nothing), Microsoft.SqlServer.Dts.Pipeline.BlobColumn)
ByteVal = System.Text.Encoding.Unicode.GetString(blobCol.GetBlobData(0, CInt(blobCol.Length)))
newXML += ((FormatElement(column.Name) + ReplaceSpecialChars(ByteVal) + FormatElement(column.Name, True)))
Case Else
newXML += ((FormatElement(column.Name) + ReplaceSpecialChars(columnValue.GetValue(Row, Nothing).ToString()) + FormatElement(column.Name, True)))
End Select
Next
Thanks in advance.
Regards
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Jan 16, 2007Hi,
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I wrote the query in query analyzer as:
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"
###### admin: Jan 8, 2007 3:53:57 PM GMT Type: Inactive (Key 10) Description: Activity yet to be started State: Planned "
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Sep 19, 2007Hi,
I have a table column type as nText, however there are some Chinese character stored in that field and it is a messed up as it is not readable.
In my vb.net code, I did Convert to unicode by getting the byte of each character and encode it with UTF8 e.g:
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' Convert To Unicode
Dim MyBytes As Byte() = Encoding.Default.GetBytes(s)
Dim GBencoding As Encoding = System.Text.UTF8Encoding.UTF8
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This works well but ,the problem is that it slows down the process quite alot, and I wonder are there any text encoding method I can use in SQL that can run when i do the SELECT Statement?
SELECT
Convert(MyNTEXTColumn)
....
something like that?
Thanks.
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So basically if there is an article written yesterday, "I Love Cats" that gets assigned both topics 'CATS' and 'PETS' I only it returned with the first topic assigned... 'CATS'. Here is a little image of the three tables being called:
http://64.225.154.232/temp_dbDiagram.gif
I don't think that this query is too difficult, but I'm just getting my feet wet with writing queries that are more than select * from whatever. Any insight or recommendations are greatly appreciated.
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topic.TOPIC_NAME, topic.TOPIC_URL
FROM tbl_CCF_Headlines headline INNER JOIN
tbl_CCF_Headlines_Topics ON headline.HEADLINE_ID = tbl_CCF_Headlines_Topics.HEADLINE_ID INNER JOIN
tbl_CCF_Topics topic ON tbl_CCF_Headlines_Topics.TOPIC_ID = topic.TOPIC_ID
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FROM tbl_CCF_HEADLINES
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Hi,
I have exported a report to excel that contains an ntext column. The exported excel file shows "#Error" for the ntext column in some of the rows. If I see the same report in reporting services I don't see any problem. I have checked that this is not any issue with the length of the text. Could you suggest me something on this?
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I need it to create 3 new columns
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ROW2: ;#typeb;#typec;#
ROW3: ;#typeb;#
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typeb
typeb
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Mar 27, 2008Hi!
I recently was confronted with a problem where a piece of text that was included in many NTEXT column values in a table needed to be replaced with another piece of text. You can't issue normal REPLACE statements against NTEXT columns, so this seemed to be a bit of a challenge €” issuing a REPLACE() against a TEXT or NTEXT column in SQL Server yields error
I tried following
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This obviously works:
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i've a db running sql server express sp2. the db size now is 1.1 gb
i've a table with a varchar column of size 20 . when i try to increase the column size to 50 i get a
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--------------------
Initializing
Connecting to Publisher 'REPLIC'
Retrieving publication information
Retrieving subscription information
A column was added to or dropped from the replicated table.
The schema script 'exec sp_repladdcolumn '[dbo].[Items]','C1',[NVARCHAR(1000) NULL], '%', 1' could not be propagated to the subscriber.
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A column was added to or dropped from the replicated table.
--------------------
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