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sqldbpro
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11 Posts

Posted - 2013-05-03 : 05:19:38

Hi all, I am a newbie to SQL. I have created a database, within which i need to create a table. One of the columns in the table will hold lot of data which could be equivalent to approx two complete A4 sized pages in MS Word.

Contents of Column/Data:
Numbers,Alphabets,Special characters, website link

The datatype should not be one which is likely to get rid of for at least a decade.

Thanks

UnemployedInOz
Yak Posting Veteran

54 Posts

Posted - 2013-05-03 : 05:24:54

nvarchar(max)

sqldbpro
Starting Member

11 Posts

Posted - 2013-05-03 : 05:28:55

quote:
Originally posted by UnemployedInOz

nvarchar(max)

Thanks

SwePeso
Patron Saint of Lost Yaks

30421 Posts

Posted - 2013-05-04 : 13:00:06

BINARY(MAX), since the data can hold control characters which is not representable in NVARCHAR.

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sqldbpro
Starting Member

11 Posts

Posted - 2013-05-09 : 02:35:37

Thanks

Transact Charlie
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

3451 Posts

Posted - 2013-05-09 : 09:50:43

you might be better off holding a link to the original document in there.

Unless you need to query the information (in which case binary won't help you out very much).

This might be a better job for a document database such as solr / elasticsearch assuming you want to search on content inside the documents.

What's the use case for this store?

Transact Charlie

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