Help with read from a text column

All, I have a table containing an ID and a text column. I need to dump the
content of the table into a text file using the following code:
SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL READ UNCOMMITTED
GO
BEGIN TRAN
set textsize 62713
DECLARE @.ptr varbinary(16)
SELECT @.ptr = textptr(note)
FROM notes
WHERE id = 307
READTEXT note @.ptr 0 62713
COMMIT TRAN
GO
However, I get only 8K out of the text column where I am suppose to get
62713. I ran OSQL to re-direct the output to a file.
thanks.
JohnHi
Query Analyser has a maximum column width or 8192 characters and you can not
increase the size beyone that in the options dialog. Although I have not
found anything to say that osql has a similar limit I can get 8342 character
s
out.
To write to a file correctly look at
http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...kb;en-us;317043
John
"John Smith" wrote:

> All, I have a table containing an ID and a text column. I need to dump the
> content of the table into a text file using the following code:
> SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL READ UNCOMMITTED
> GO
> BEGIN TRAN
> set textsize 62713
> DECLARE @.ptr varbinary(16)
> SELECT @.ptr = textptr(note)
> FROM notes
> WHERE id = 307
> READTEXT note @.ptr 0 62713
> COMMIT TRAN
> GO
> However, I get only 8K out of the text column where I am suppose to get
> 62713. I ran OSQL to re-direct the output to a file.
> thanks.
> John