DEP002

WRITETEXT, UPDATETEXT and READTEXT statements are deprecated

The TEXT datatype has been deprecated and should be replaced by an appropriate datatype.

These functions are used in support of the TEXT datatype, which  was replaced in SQL Server 2005 by the far more versatile VARCHAR(MAX). This is compatible with string functions, and is actively supported. 


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