line breaks lost in sql server

Question

I am entering error information into an ErrorLog table in my database. I have a utility class to do this:

ErrorHandler.Error(\"Something has broken!!\\n\\nDe         


        

Answer 1

For SQL Server 2008, there is no provision to set "Retain CR\LF on copy or save" to true.

For this issue, what I did is that, replace char(13) with "\r" and replace char(10) with "\n" like below.

REPLACE(REPlACE([COLUMN_NAME],char(13), '\r'),CHAR(10),'\n')

And in the code-behind again I've replaced "\r\n" with a break tag.

I worked out in this way as there was no option provided in SQL 2008 as mentioned above. This answer might be an alternative though.

Thanks