Need to convert Text field to Varchar temporarily so that I can pass to a stored procedure

Question

I am using a SQL 2000 database.

I am working with a database in which I cannot change the types on the tables, or the stored procedures. One of the stored procedures

Answer 1

Declare the variable of type varchar(8000)

declare @v varchar(8000)
SET @v = (SELECT CAST(textcol as varchar(8000)) FROM yourtable WHERE ....)

Obviously it might still be truncated but not at 1 character.