Good question, many thanks.

I suspect this is linked with your previous post and may be part of a project.

Before you continue you may wish to consider the data types you have and what you are trying to achieve, The following may help in the right direction:
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Good question thanks Steve

Nice and simple, thanks Steve.

Very well written article. However you have not mentioned Microsoft's recommendation to alter the registry setting at: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\instance_ID\Setup, where instance_id is the installed instance you are...