Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 02/08/07 23:07

AlterEgo (alterego55@dslextreme.com) writes:
> First of all, SQL Server maximum rowsize = 8,060 bytes. Make sure you
> keep under that limit when you add the #bytes from all of the other
> columns.

This applies to SQL 2000 only. On SQL 2005 rows can span pages. Not so
that you can have three char(8000) on the same page, but three varchar(8000)
is OK.


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Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se

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