Enterprise Manager data entry limit

I have a table that has several fields of data type varchar
(4000). I cannot enter more that 1024 characters using
Enterprise Manager. I can create a table in Access and
import it or use VB to populate the table without any
problem. Why doesn't EM allow data to be entered up to the
field length in the table design?
Hi,
Sorry to tell this.
Enterprise manager is a GUI tool to do database administration, it is not a
tool to do data entry. You can very well
use Query Analyzer to insert the text data into a table using INSERT
statement.
Insert into table_name values('jhsajdhaskdlksadhsalkdjsaldjlsadjlsajdjl.. .n
characters)
Thanks
Hari
MCDBA
"Colin" <anonymous@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I have a table that has several fields of data type varchar
> (4000). I cannot enter more that 1024 characters using
> Enterprise Manager. I can create a table in Access and
> import it or use VB to populate the table without any
> problem. Why doesn't EM allow data to be entered up to the
> field length in the table design?
|||Colin,
I don't know the answer to your question, perhaps its a limit of the
grid control that is used? I have a question for you. Why do you want to
insert such huge values through Enterprise Manager? Why not just write a
quick script in Query Analyzer to insert the data?
Also beware that you could run into problems if all your field lengths
exceed the size of a data page (8k).
Mark Allison, SQL Server MVP
http://www.markallison.co.uk
Looking for a SQL Server replication book?
http://www.nwsu.com/0974973602.html
Colin wrote:
> I have a table that has several fields of data type varchar
> (4000). I cannot enter more that 1024 characters using
> Enterprise Manager. I can create a table in Access and
> import it or use VB to populate the table without any
> problem. Why doesn't EM allow data to be entered up to the
> field length in the table design?
|||Thanks for the replies.
I understand EM is not the tool to use for data
entry...just curious why it limited data entry in this
way.
|||Hi Colin,
I've been chatting with the SQL MVPs and some people at Microsoft about
this issue on your behalf, and I was told to RTFM. :-) SQL MVP, Steve
Kass pointed this out to me:
"Some of the limitations of Enterprise Manager are documented in the
following Books Online article:
Editing Rows in the Results Pane
In particular, that article says:
You can edit a memo-type column (such as a text, memo, or long character
column) if the column does not display <Long Text>. The Results pane can
accept up to 900 characters of text in memo-type columns. If you are
typing in a cell and exceed the amount of text that the Results pane can
accept, the Query Designer will beep to indicate that you have exceeded
this limit."
I hope this helps further.
Mark Allison, SQL Server MVP
http://www.markallison.co.uk
Looking for a SQL Server replication book?
http://www.nwsu.com/0974973602.html
Colin wrote:
> Thanks for the replies.
> I understand EM is not the tool to use for data
> entry...just curious why it limited data entry in this
> way.