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when is varchar(max) not a varchar(max)

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I was looking into a question raised at the lauanch about the best way to pass large sets of values to sql. Currently the person is restricted by the 8000 character limit for a varchar in SQL 2000. A number of options where mentioned including bulk inserting, xml, a user defined type and a varchar(max).

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