Joe Burdette (11/6/2008)
In MHO, making a change to the underlying table structure is NOT a workaround. (period!) Therefore, the only "workaround" solution is to change the select statement. 😉
No need to change the structure of the tables. I posted a workaround that would use a view over the tables. Derek Dongray also posted a solution whar you cast the text columns as varchar(max) in the select statements directly.
The best solution, however, would have been to build the tables in SQL Server 2005 using the varchar(max) to begin with.