1: | What is the difference between the data types TEXT and NTEXT? |
A1: | The main difference between these two data types is that the TEXT data type is used to store non-Unicode data up to a length of 2,147,483,647 bytes. The NTEXT data type is used to store Unicode data up to a length of 1,073,741,823 characters. |
2: | What amount of data can be stored before it is considered a large object? |
A2: | Whenever character or binary data is larger than 8,000 bytes, it should be stored in a large data object. |
3: | How do I tell the server to store the text in the row, instead of using separate pages? |
A3: | You should use the sp_tableoption stored procedure to turn the 'text in row' option ON or OFF for a specified table as shown:
Exec sp_tableoption 'Customers', 'text in row', 'ON' |
There are no exercisses for this lesson.