How do I view the full content of a text or varchar(MAX) column in SQL Server 2008 Management Studio
- by adamjford
In this live SQL Server 2008 (build 10.0.1600) database, there's an Events table, which contains a text column named Details. (Yes, I realize this should actually be a varchar(MAX) column, but whoever set this database up did not do it that way.)
This column contains very large logs of exceptions and associated JSON data that I'm trying to access…