Data Type Question
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Hi Everyone,
I have a field which is currently set to varchar(4000), unfortunately this was mis-specified and it turns out that we need to change the data type or limit to allow 10000 characters. The field is used to store blog-style entries which include html code, hence the reason for the large limit. I am using SQL 2005.
Please can you recommend a datatype that I should use, from reading around I think that either 'varchar(max)' would be ok or possibly 'text' however i have seen reports that the latter is going to be phased out.
Feel free to correct me if I am wrong and make a suggestion.
Many Thanks,
David
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Varchar(max), definitely. Unless you need non-Latin characters, then NVarchar(max). (That's for things like Chinese characters, Greek letters, etc.)
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AS suggested varchar(max) is your best choice for large data types, nvarchar(max) if you are willing to use any national/unicode characters.
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Thanks very much guys, I will proceed with an nvarchar(max) then!
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