Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 12/07/05 00:31

imani_technology_spam@yahoo.com (imani_technology_spam@yahoo.com) writes:
> Okay, so there is no limit on concatenation. If I continue to
> concatenate chars and/or varchars in one column, won't I run into the
> 8K row size limit? If I do, what would happen? Would I get an error
> message, or will the contents of said column be truncated?

Truncated.

In SQL Server 2005, you can use the new varchar(MAX) data type which
is virtually unbounded (2 GB).


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