Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 10/02/07 11:50

Marc Filthaut (usenet_delete_for_reply@filthaut.com) writes:
> I have a problem, I have a table with a text type column and a
> nvarchar(2000) type column on my MS SQL 2000 Server.
>
> I know that the longest text in the text field is 1000 chars. I want to
> copy the content the content of the text field into the nvarchar field.
>
> I tried convert and cast but after the update there are only 255 chars
> in the nvarchar field.

I don't believe that. Add a len(nvarcharfield) to you query and you
will make a revelation.

The next step of this operation is to go Tools->Options->Results and
change the setting Max characters per column.


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