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Asked: 2026-05-12T00:42:12+00:00

Given the following HTML <b>demo</b> I want to save it to an SQL 2005

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Given the following HTML “<b>demo</b>”
I want to save it to an SQL 2005 table
Mandatory, no encoded, no escaped characters in the saved field from database

Saved html must be as small as possible
On my efforts, my stored html is always saved as encoded &gt; html

EDIT:
Debugging my code I found that my HTML string is sended encoded to my StoredProcedure. Server.HtmlDecode won’t entirely decode my HTML !
It’s TinyMCE fault.

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  1. Editorial Team

    A direct insert of an arbitrary varchar string should always work:

    create table MarkupTable(
  id int identity(1,1) /*please don't berate me for using identity!*/
, markup varchar(max) /* this will use only the space taken by your markup string */
)

insert MarkupTable select '<html><b>demo</b></html>'

select * from MarkupTable

    Now – the question is: what piece of code is encoding your markup???

    Some starting places:

    • Are you using C# objects properly: SqlParameter(SqlDbType.VarChar).Value = yourMarkupString;
    • Are you using FOR XML anywhere?
    • Are you using anything like Security.Escape(markup)?
    • Is your string being returned as part of an XmlDocument or SOAP envelope? (it WILL be escaped by the serializer)
    • Are you getting a doubly encoded string?

    Try:

    Server.HtmlDecode(Server.HtmlDecode(markupString));

    For space requirements:

    • You could run the string through a whitespace stripping algorithm (anything becomes a single space or tab.
    • You could compress the text and not even store varchar(max), but varbinary(max)
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