Syscomments Table Text Field Does Not Allow More Than 8060 Chars
Oct 18, 2006
Hello,
I have a table in SQL Server 2000 which has few triggers. When I try to update a record in that table, I get following message:
Warning: The table '[TABLE_NAME]' has been created but its maximum row size (17275) exceeds the maximum number of bytes per row (8060). INSERT or UPDATE of a row in this table will fail if the resulting row length exceeds 8060 bytes.
where the data I am updating is well less than the field limit. The triggers are stored in syscomments table and when I dropped these triggers, the update statements were executed without this message. Is there anyway I can change the data type of field text in syscomments from nvarchar to ntext?
Thanks
Din
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Feb 1, 2006
I need to strip some puntcuation from any field in a given table.I'd rather like to avoid using the replace () for each field in thetable.Anyone have a nifty way do this?Is there a special name that I can use in the replace that means theentire row?(other than syntax, something like REPLACE(@ROW,CHAR(39),'') )tiaRob
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May 8, 2008
Has anyone experienced problems calling stored procedures that references syscomments.text from Visual Basic 6?
I have a stored procedure that finds all tables referenced by a specific stored procedure. It works well when I call it from SQL Server Management Studio, but there are cases where it does not find the tables when I call it from VB 6.
I've isolated the failure it to a specific condition in the WHERE clause:
SELECT @howfar = so.id
FROM SYSOBJECTS so
LEFT OUTER JOIN syscomments sc on so.ID = sc.ID
Where lower(so.name) = lower('storedProcName')
AND lower(sc.TEXT) LIKE '%' + lower('update') + ' ' + lower('tableName') + '%'
The call from VB works (finds the record) if
" AND lower(sc.TEXT) LIKE '%' + lower('update') + ' ' + lower('tableName') + '%' "
is omitted, and fails (does not find any records, no error is raised) if that condition is included.
I should also add that the VB Call does work for some combinations of stored procedures and tables.
The old SET NOCOUNT ON trick does not make any difference.
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What's the maximum number of characters that varchar field will take? I read somewhere that it's 8k, but I may have misunderstood.
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What's the best way to do this?
Thanks,
--PhB
--PhB
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How do you insert more than 255 characters into a text field? or am I using READTEXT and DATALENGTH incorrectly?
I am trying to concatenate two 255 varchar strings. Both do have 255 characters of data.
I want to insert the concatenated strings into a field define as a text data type.
if I try to ' insert into tempTbl(textFieldDataType) values (@text1+@text2) it appears only the @text1 is inserted.
I have been told the data is really there, but I can only read the 256 position + with READTEXT.
DECLARE @textptr varbinary(16)
select @textptr = (select TEXTPTR(textFieldDataType) from tempTbl where pktempTbl = 33)
READTEXT tempTbl.textFieldDataType @textPtr 255 10
This should have read 10 text positions after the 255th position. However, I get msg
Msg 7124, Level 16, State 1
The offset and length specified in the READTEXT command is greater than the actual data length of 255.
If I use the datalength function, it appears to confirm that @text2 was never inserted
declare @length int
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select @length
@length is returned as 255
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Hi
I defined the following table in MSSQL 2000
sql Code:
Original
- sql Code
CREATE TABLE saved_query (
id INT NOT NULL IDENTITY(1,1) PRIMARY KEY,
name VARCHAR(32) NOT NULL,
query_text VARCHAR(2048) NOT NULL
)
CREATE TABLE saved_query ( id INT NOT NULL IDENTITY(1,1) PRIMARY KEY, name VARCHAR(32) NOT NULL, query_text VARCHAR(2048) NOT NULL)
and whenever I insert or update the query_text field, it's always truncated to 255 characters. Why? I clearly specified a larger field size. I also tried defining query_text as a "TEXT" but got the same result.
Thanks for any help
Ken
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I thought I understand the notion in the Title until I ran the query below. This query inserts a 5000 byte value into two columns in the same record and sql (2008) doesn't complain.Â
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create table table_1(
[mychar1] [varchar](8000) NULL,
[mychar2] [varchar](8000) NULL
)
insert into table_1 ( mychar1, mychar2)
values (replicate('a', 5000) , replicate('b', 5000))
select * from table_1
-- truncate table table_1
I just noticed that using  Replicate ('a', 50000) doesn't cause an issue either. I'll be reviewing the replicate documentation too.
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THOMSON
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----------------------
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Hi,
What is the use of sys.syscomments ?
Cheers,
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