On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 03:10, Tim Bunce wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 04:16:44PM -0800, Michael Peppler wrote:
> > On Sun, 2004-02-01 at 13:33, Tim Bunce wrote:
> > > Which databases cannot accept, and do something reasonable, with a
> > > VARCHAR field declaration of 1024 characters?
> > 
> > Sybase < 12.5 will throw an error on the create statement, and will
> > probably fail on the insert as well (though I don't have a server
> > running here right now that I can test it on).
> > 
> > Sybase >= 12.5 will handle the 1024 limit with no problems, although you
> > will get a warning message if the total width of the table could exceed
> > the page size (2k by default, but configurable up to 16k).
> 
> Thanks. Do you (or anyone else) know if the same issues apply to MS SQL?

Sorry, no.

Michael
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