How many characters can LongString contain?

Bo Brinch

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I have learned that ShortString (MetaDataType) can hold strings of up to 512 characters.

But what about LongString - how many characters can this data type hold?

(it doesn't seem to be documented anywhere)

#199018

Nov 13, 2018 12:26

Quan Mai

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LongString is stored as NVARCHAR(MAX), which is 2GB maximum. Since each character is 2 bytes in length so you get ~ 1 Billion characters maximum.

But I doubt you would want or should have a property that long. But a few KB should be fine.

#199019

Nov 13, 2018 12:39

Bo Brinch

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I see :-)

I need to store a meta field of text of up to 5 KB. Is there a better data type than LongString for that purpose?

#199020

Edited, Nov 13, 2018 12:44

Quan Mai

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No, LongString is the perfect one (if not the only one) for it

#199021

Nov 13, 2018 13:05