Moving from text to varchar(MAX): Are there any troubles to expect with MS Access?

Question

It is well-known that MS Access applications (MDBs) using SQL Server backends have trouble with certain data types. For example,

• bit field sup

Answer 1

We are in the same situation: MS-Access front end, SQL Server back end. We are already creating all new fields as nvarchar(max) instead of ntext, without any problem on the user side. As we do not use either text or image field types, I cannot say anything on them.