Tracy Boggiano

Tracy is the Database Superhero for ChannelAdvisor. She has spent over 20 years in IT and has used SQL Server since 1999. Tracy covers all aspects of administration and deals heavily with performance tuning and high availability and disaster recovery. Tracy is a co-organizer of a Special Interest Group (SIG) dedicated to advanced DBA topics in our local user group TriPass. She is also the founder of http://WeSpeakLinux.com. Before she worked full-time as a DBA she was formally a developer and network administrator. She also tinkered with databases in middle/high school to keep her sports card collection organized.

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The Long String

I have a table (dbo.beer) with this data:

BeerIDBeerNamebrewerbeerdescription
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1BecksInterbrewBeck's is a German-style pilsner beer known for its golden color, full-bodied taste, and a crisp, clean finish with floral and fruity hop aromas, brewed according to the German purity law
2Fat TireNew BelgiumToasty malt, gentle sweetness, flash of fresh hop bitterness. The malt and hops are perfectly balanced.
3Mac n JacksMac & Jack's BreweryThis beer erupts with a floral, hoppy taste, followed by a well rounded malty middle, finishing with a nicely organic hop flavor. Locally sourced two row grain and a blend of specialty malts give our amber its rich taste.
4Alaskan AmberAlaskan BrewingAlaskan Brewing Amber Ale is an "alt" style beer, meaning it's fermented slowly and at colder temperatures, resulting in a well-balanced, richly malty, and long-lasting flavor profile with a clean, pleasing aftertaste.
8KirinKirin BrewingKirin Ichiban is a Lager-type beer, which means it is fermented at low temperatures and offers a light and refreshing texture with a smooth and balanced flavor.
Here is the DDL For the table: 
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[Beer]
(
[BeerID] [int] NOT NULL IDENTITY(1, 1),
[BeerName] [varchar] (20) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL,
[brewer] [varchar] (20) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL,
[beerdescription] [varchar] (max) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL
) ON [PRIMARY] TEXTIMAGE_ON [PRIMARY]
GO
I run this code: 
SET TEXTSIZE 20;
SELECT
  b2.BeerName
, b2.beerdescription
FROM dbo.Beer AS b2;
GO
What is returned?  

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