Quoting Joe Conway <joseph(dot)conway(at)home(dot)com>:
> TEXT is a datatype which stores character data of unspecified length (up
> to
> the max value of a 4 byte integer in length, although I've seen
> comments
> indicating that the practical limit is closer to 1 GB -- not sure why).
It may be something to do with the 1Gb splitting of the physical files
representing a table... Unless it changed recently, a table was split over
multiple files at the 1Gb mark.
Peter
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