SA0053A : Don’t use deprecated TEXT,NTEXT and IMAGE data types |
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The topic describes the SA0053A analysis rule.

Don’t use deprecated TEXT,NTEXT and IMAGE data types

The data types ntext, text, and image will be removed in a future version of Microsoft SQL Server.

Avoid using these data types in new development work, and plan to modify applications that currently use them. Use nvarchar(max), varchar(max), and varbinary(max) instead.

The rule has a ContextOnly scope and is applied only on current server and database schema.

Rule has no parameters.

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Design Rules, Deprecated Features, Bugs

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