How can I insert more than 8000 characters in a VARCHAR(MAX) column with ExecuteNonQuery?

Question

I am trying to insert > 8000 characters (submit from a web page) via ExecuteNonQuery (and DatabaseFactory.CreateDatabase() from MS Practices Enterp

Answer 1

Your sample code can be fixed by doing:

declare @x varchar(max)
set @x = replicate (cast('a' as varchar(max)), 10000)
select @x, len(@x)