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itsmani1
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Posted - 2005-11-25 : 05:18:44
i am very new to sql server.
i have a problem that i am not able to increase the capicity of the text field. when i added new text field it just allow me the capicity of 16 that's it. if i try to modify/edit it it does not allow me to do so.

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surendrakalekar
Posting Yak Master

120 Posts

Posted - 2005-11-25 : 06:09:07
Don't worry about it.. It will show you 16 only in design mode but it will accept more than 16 i.e. 2^31 - 1 (2,147,483,647) characters.

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nr
SQLTeam MVY

12543 Posts

Posted - 2005-11-25 : 10:38:09
That size is just the size of the field in the data row. It is a pointer to the actual text entry which is not held on the data page.
When you do a select or insert it will access the text data not the pointer.

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