How can I insert over 8000 bytes into SQL using C#? I have a large amount of text I want to store in a varchar, 8000 bytes seems to be the limit, can I increase this?
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How can I insert over 8000 bytes into SQL using C#? I have a large amount of text I want to store in a varchar, 8000 bytes seems to be the limit, can I increase this?
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which version of SQL are you using? SQL 2008 supports the varchar(MAX) variable which allows a much larger amount of text.
Update: Sorry, that’s Microsoft SQL 2005 and greater … varchar(MAX) can hold 2GB of data …. you didn’t specify if you’re using MS-SQL so I made an assumption.