Home Forums SQL Server 2014 Development - SQL Server 2014 Reason for dropping TEXT, IMAGE data types RE: Reason for dropping TEXT, IMAGE data types

  • August 9, 2013 at 4:23 am

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    T.Ashish (8/9/2013)

    With large-value data types You can define variables that can store large amounts of data, up to 2^31-1 bytes of character, binary, and Unicode data. That was not possible using the text, ntext and image data types from earlier versions of SQL Server.

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