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Posted - 2000-10-12 : 08:43:48
Dean writes "A large database holds records as a varchar(255) on SQL server 6.5(Microsoft SQL Server 6.50 - 6.50.416 (Intel X86)), a problem has now occurred in a stored procedure as the data recalled by the server is now larger than the 255 and the data is coming back truncated.
I need to convert the varchar possibly to a text, but am not sure what effects this would have on associated sp's and tables. I assume I will have to change update statements to Writetext etc. Will this have to be done in just this sp or throughout the whole database??
Any other suggestions???"
   

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