RE: VARCHAR(200) vs VARCHAR(2000)

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April 2, 2013 at 6:10 am

you could run into problems with inserting/updating rows with unecessarily oversized rows of data;

SQL still has a max row size of 8060, so if you had an update statement that tried to manipulate too many oversized columns, you'll get an error.

Warning: The table XXX has been created, but its maximum row size exceeds the allowed maximum of 8060 bytes.
-- INSERT or UPDATE to this table will fail if the resulting row exceeds the size limit.

Lowell

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