Max Data Type in SQL2000

Anything I can use in SQL2000 in place of varchar(max) (only in SQL2005) with a 2 GB-per-instance capacity

DECLARE jkcursor CURSOR

READ_ONLY

FOR SELECT top 100 episodeid,episodedate,journalentry

FROM ccnidcdw.[Pre-AuthThin].dbo.tbljournal

WHERE journalentry like '%CoCustServ%'

DECLARE @.episodeid varchar(15), @.episodedate datetime, @.journal varchar(2gb)

OPEN jkcursor

FETCH NEXT FROM jkcursor INTO @.episodeid,@.episodedate,@.journal

WHILE (@.@.fetch_status = 0)

BEGIN

print @.journal

FETCH NEXT FROM jkcursor INTO @.episodeid,@.episodedate,@.journal

END

CLOSE jkcursor

DEALLOCATE jkcursor

thanks

Text/NText and Image comes with restrictions. Check the link below.

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa276838(SQL.80).aspx

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anything I can do with varchar ?

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Nope. Varchar(max) & NVarchar(max) are introduced very first in SQL Server 2005. You have to use Text/NText. But with lot of restrictions.

You don't have other options in SQL Server 2000.

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The limit for Varchar is 8000 while Nvarchar is 4000 and there is no Varchar/Nvarchar(max) in 2000 so you have to use Text/NText but you cannot do comparison and other operation with Text/NText. The restrictions are covered in the link I posted.

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