May 18, 2017 · VARCHAR (4000) - 4,000 characters VARCHAR (8000) - 8,000 characters - and if you use a number for this field's definition, that's the highest NUMBER you can use, but watch …

Jun 28, 2018 · SQL Server will physically limit you to just over 8000 bytes. Using LOB types — VARCHAR(MAX), NVARCHAR(MAX), VARBINARY(MAX), XML, and the deprecated TEXT, …

Oct 15, 2021 · The limits are 16 columns and 900 bytes for versions before SQL Database and SQL Server 2016 (13.x). Columns that are of the large object (LOB) data types ntext, text, …

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Oct 26, 2020 · I need to dig into a logs table with a schema similar to this: CREATE TABLE t ( id int PRIMARY KEY, data varchar(max) ); Column data stores a XML text received from a web …

Jan 29, 2015 · comments varchar(max) NULL -- this is the current column definition comments varchar(4000) SPARSE NULL My current understanding is that in both cases, a NULL value …

May 29, 2012 · I have a field to store some data, the field is declared as varchar(max). To my understanding this should be storing 2^31 - 1 characters but when I enter some content over …

If the values of a column are only going to be <= 255 characters, is there any real difference between using varchar (255) and varchar (max). I realize that varchar(255) has a limit of 255 …

Feb 21, 2022 · In SQL Server version 7 the 8K page was introduced and varchar (n) max length went from 255 to 8000. The page size before version 7 was 2K, so allowing a varchar to take …

And this MSDN article discusses execute. In particular: In earlier versions of SQL Server, character strings are limited to 8,000 bytes. This requires concatenating large strings for …