DaveK2014 (5/2/2014)
I am trying to run the query below. Between the %% will be certain text that we are looking for.The problem is the union blows up because optionlongdesc is a ntext field. Any thoughts on how to make this work?
Thanks
Yes, change your table to use nvarchar(max) instead. the (n)text datatype has been deprecated. It is a pain to work with. You can't index it and you have to constantly convert it to a max datatype in order to use a where clause.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187993.aspx
If you can't change the table you will have to do a convert in your query. You shouldn't have any issue changing the column to nvarchar(max) from ntext.
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