SQL Server, Converting NTEXT to NVARCHAR(MAX)

Question

I have a database with a large number of fields that are currently NTEXT.

Having upgraded to SQL 2005 we have run some performance tests on converting these to NVARC

Answer 1

Running a database test on a low performance virtual machine is not really indicative of production performance, the heavy IO involved will require a fast disk array, which the virtualisation will throttle.