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I would like to see how many times the field MSGTEXT is repeated in the table MMOUTBOUND . For that I use the following query: SELECT MSGTEXT, COUNT(*) TotalCount FROM MMOUTBOUND GROUP BY MSGTEXT HAVING COUNT(*)>1; But I get an error because ntext data types cannot be compared or sorted. How can I achieve this for the ntext data type? You can't directly, for the entire column. However, indirectly, you can convert the first N characters and group by this instead, e.g. SELECT CONVERT(NVARCHAR(100), MSGTEXT), COUNT(*) TotalCount FROM MMOUTBOUND GROUP BY CONVERT(NVARCHAR(100), MSGTEXT) HAVING

NTEXT with more than 4000 characters in SQL Server CE in windows phone I have a database in my windows phone app with a ntext field in one of the tables, I'm trying to write some content to this field, but I get an InvalidOperationException with the message: String truncation: max=4000, len=4621 I am trying to use ntext because I know that nvarchar doesn't accept more than 4000 chars. I've searched for a solution but I couldn't find any. The only solution I found I cannot use on windows phone, because it uses the SqlConnection and SqlCommand with SqlDbType . Here is how the columns is declared

If I use something like [ntext2] <> '1,032.5', I get this error: The data types ntext and varchar are incompatible in the not equal to operator. The best possible solution would be if comparison is implemented in the same way for any column type. (<> operator is applicable for both NVARCHAR and INT). The ntext data type is deprecated in favour of the nvarchar(max) data type. If you can change the data type in the table, that would be the best solution. Then there is no problem comparing it to a varchar literal. Otherwise you would have to cast the value before comparing it: cast([ntext2] as

I have PrivateMessage-System in my new Community-Page. I have a Multiline-Textbox for the Text of a private message. I save this text in a string, this string in a ntext SQL-Coloumn. I read this text from the ntext SQL-Coloum in a string and show it in a label. When I have 5 linebreaks with the "Enter"-Key in my Multi-line-textbox, the linebreaks will disappeared in the label. I don't know where they gone lost and what I am doing wrong. any idea? First of all is it actually saving the line breaks to your table? If so, what does it save them as, eg \r\n or CRLF or what? Your label outputs html,