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Asked: 2026-05-12T14:38:01+00:00

Long time back in past I had read somewhere that if we want to

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Long time back in past I had read somewhere that if we want to enter data in “image” typed field of table whose value is more then 8kb, then we must explicitly specify parameter type to SqlImage. Is this true? I don’t find any such documentation about it anymore.

I tried to use Reflector to reverse engineer the SqlClient in order to see if it’s required or not, but I didn’t get any hint about it. If anyone can give me any confirmed statement that it’s not necessary it will be of great help.

I am using SQL 2008 and I am using Image data type not varbinary or binary.

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  1. Editorial Team

    What version of SQL Server are you working with?

    Image is a soon to be deprecated data type. Use varbinary(max) instead.

    From SQL Server Books Online:

    This feature will be removed in a
    future version of Microsoft SQL
    Server. Avoid using this feature in
    new development work, and plan to
    modify applications that currently use
    this feature. Use varchar(max),
    nvarchar(max) and varbinary(max) data
    types instead. For more information,
    see Using Large-Value Data Types.

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