I am new to web development (if I can call what I am doing web
development) and have a sql question and was hoping someone could point
me in the right direction.  I have put together this data driven website
and found access to be insufficient to hold as much text as I wished in
a description field.  Thus I moved to sql, but am finding the 4000
character limitation for varchar to be a hindrance and not much better
than the 255 character limit in access.  I found a link a couple minutes
ago basically stating I was pretty much limited to 8000 characters no
matter the data type I pick save for some concatenation maneuver.  So I
am wondering how I can just put a blob of text into the database.  I
can't be the only guy who wants to store a couple pages of text in a
field in a database so that it can be queried to populate a web page can
I?   On it's face it would seem that if I should be able to define my
own data type to accommodate my needs?  What is the right direction?  

 

Thanks,

 

John    

 


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