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QUESTION POSED ON: 11 April 2004
One of the developers in the shop in which I work received an error stating that "string or binary data would be truncated" when he attempted to enter data that had more characters than the receiving varchar column could contain. He is now asking that all varchar columns that are greater than a certain size be converted to the text data type. Are there any reasons why this should not be done?

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