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Asked: 2026-05-24T07:16:54+00:00

How to assign a large text more than 8000 characters in SQL server Thanks,

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How to assign a large text more than 8000 characters in SQL server

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Vara Prasad.M

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    Use one of the max types but beware that any intermediate expressions will be varchar(8000) (or nvarchar(4000)) unless they involve the (n)varchar(max) type

    DECLARE @maxtype varchar(max)

--on the right, never above 8000
SET @maxtype = REPLICATE('a', 6000) + REPLICATE('b', 6000)
SELECT LEN(@maxtype) --8000

--here, there is a max on the right
SET @maxtype = REPLICATE(CAST('a' AS varchar(max)), 6000) + REPLICATE('b', 6000)
SELECT LEN(@maxtype) --12000
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