I am exporting my sql table to the access database. My text fileds in SQL are stored as varchar(50) in SQL server 2005. but when I export the table to Access, These fileds get converted to 'memo' fields. I tried converting these memo fields in access to text field but Access does do that, throws an error message saying not enough disk space.
When I try to convert these 'varchar' fields in sql to text fileds, sql throws a 'time out ' message nad does not convert it to text.
What do I do?
Thanks
As per the guidelines of Microsoft, the equivalent of 'VARCHAR' in Sql server is 'TEXT' in MS-Access. How are you exporting Sql server data to Access? Are you using SSIS? On a side note, equivalent of 'MEMO' is 'TEXT' in Sql Server. I wouldn't recommend you to change the data type in Sql Server to change to 'TEXT'.
Text data type in Sql Server is used to store large texts that go beyond 8KB in size. Usually, sql server keeps a 16 byte pointer to the text data in the page. It can contain upto 2 GB size data. In Sql Server 2005, usage of Text data type is not recommended and varchar(max) is recommended.
http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-6345-5033381.html
https://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2000/reskit/part2/c0561.mspx?mfr=true
