How do you use the LEFT function (or an equivalent) on a SQL Server NTEXT column?
Basically I’m building a GridView and I just want to return the first 100 or so characters from the Description column which is NTEXT.
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How do you use the LEFT function (or an equivalent) on a SQL Server NTEXT column?
Basically I’m building a GridView and I just want to return the first 100 or so characters from the Description column which is NTEXT.
SELECT CAST(ntext_col AS nvarchar(100)) as ntext_substr FROM …
[EDIT] Originally had it returning LEFT(N,100) of CAST to nvarchar(MAX), CASTing will truncate and since LEFT is wanted, that is enough.