Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 07/06/07 22:14

Rod (rod.perez@gmail.com) writes:
> Under SQL 2000 I have a table that consists of a single column of text
> type, each record holds about 15-25,000 chars. This data happens to be
> an xml, and I want to write this records to a text file. In order to
> accomplish this i'm using ISQL.exe, but i'm finding that some of the
> text type records aren't being written complete (truncated at 8k
> chars).

Any particular reason you are using ISQL? You may have better luck with
OSQL. Or maybe even better luck with BCP.




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