A whopping 16 characters? 8^) Actually, according to my SQL Server reference, the TEXT datatype can store 2,147,483,647 bytes.
-- Mosh Teitelbaum evoch, LLC Tel: (301) 625-9191 Fax: (301) 933-3651 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.evoch.com/ > -----Original Message----- > From: Tony Weeg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 12:11 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: SQL Text question from a beginner > > > look at the datatype of "text" it holds 16 bytes of data, i believe. > > hth > > tony > > -----Original Message----- > From: John Munyan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 12:04 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: SQL Text question from a beginner > > > 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 > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
