Question

I am new to Microsoft SQL, and I am attempting to import a database from MySQL. The only issue that I am having is that the MySQL database uses the longtext data type for several table columns.

What Microsoft SQL datatype is analogous to MySQL longtext?

Thank you for your time.

Answer 1

Microsoft SQL Server has NTEXT and NVARCHAR(MAX) which are both very similar; NVARCHAR(MAX) (or VARCHAR(MAX) if you don’t need to handle internationalisation) is recommended over the earlier NTEXT (and TEXT again if you don’t need to store anything other than a single codepage.)