ntext, text, and image

Fixed and variable-length data types for storing large non-Unicode and Unicode character and binary data. Unicode data uses the UNICODE UCS-2 character set.

ntext

Variable-length Unicode data with a maximum length of 2³⁰ - 1 (1,073,741,823) characters. Storage size, in bytes, is two times the number of characters entered. The SQL-92 synonym for ntext is national text.

text

Variable-length non-Unicode data in the code page of the server and with a maximum length of 2³¹-1 (2,147,483,647) characters. When the server code page uses double-byte characters, the storage is still 2,147,483,647 bytes. Depending on the character string, the storage size may be less than 2,147,483,647 bytes.

image

Variable-length binary data from 0 through 2³¹-1 (2,147,483,647) bytes.

Remarks

These functions and statements can be used with ntext, text, or image data.

See Also

ALTER TABLE

CAST and CONVERT

CREATE TABLE

Data Type Conversion

Data Types

DECLARE @local_variable

DELETE

INSERT

LIKE

SET @local_variable

UPDATE

Using Unicode Data