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UPDATETEXT or WRITETEXT?
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Tom Carnahan
Tom Carnahan
Posted Friday, January 22, 2010 2:16 PM
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Hello,
I searched the prior posts and scrutinized the BOL ... I still have some confusion.
I am stuck with a database application that uses SS2k (no way of upgrading). A table the application uses has a field that is NVARCHAR(4000) ... stores non-Latin character sets ... that needs to be changed to NTEXT in order to store more character data. I understand my choices are UPDATETEXT and WRITETEXT.
Q1: If I am completely replacing the contents of
one field in one row
, do I use UPDATETEXT or WRITETEXT?
Q2: I am not having much luck getting UPDATETEXT to completely remove the old text and replace it with the new. Could someone show me the correct way to "replace all existing" text in the one field in the one row?
Thanks ahead of time for any help you can provide!
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Sergiy
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Posted Friday, January 22, 2010 2:18 PM
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Did you try simple UPDATE?
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Tom Carnahan
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Posted Friday, January 22, 2010 5:15 PM
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BOL recommends that you don't use UPDATE with NTEXT since the field only holds a pointer to "out of row" data.
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NTEXT can hold up to 2 Billion characters. The max number of bytes for a row in SS2K is 8060. SS2K stores the data in other places and only keeps a pointer in the field.
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