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Limiting the Amount of Characters Output in a Column Using the SQL TEXTSIZE Command

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TEXTSIZE can limit the amount of data returned for the following data types:

varchar(max)nvarchar(max)varbinary(max)textntextimage

To set the TEXTSIZE use the following command:

SET TEXTSIZE (number)

So, if I were to type SET TEXTSIZE (100) it would limit the amount of characters to 100.

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