Re: [web2py] Re: TEXT data type deprecated in future MSSQL?

2012-03-19 Thread Ross Peoples
I don't think we need to worry about this for a while. It doesn't say deprecated, but that it will be removed in a future version (semantics, I know). But, they have not given any indication of what version, which means they probably won't remove it until the version AFTER 2012 (2014, maybe).

Re: [web2py] Re: TEXT data type deprecated in future MSSQL?

2012-03-19 Thread Niphlod
As an insider working with MSSQL at least 8 hours a day no need to worry, text is going to be there at least for five or more years. there are several professional applications that require it extensively. To make things worse, varchar(max) implementation - forced and recommended by MSSQL

[web2py] Re: TEXT data type deprecated in future MSSQL?

2012-03-16 Thread Massimo Di Pierro
We'll break backward compatibility for this adapter and we'll blame MS for it. On Friday, 16 March 2012 15:07:50 UTC-5, Joaquin Orbe wrote: Hi Massimo, I've took a look into dal.py and found that text data type for MSSQLAdapter and MSSQL2Adapter is mapped to TEXT and NTEXT respectively.

[web2py] Re: TEXT data type deprecated in future MSSQL?

2012-03-16 Thread Massimo Di Pierro
P.S. Please open a google code ticket about it. On Friday, 16 March 2012 15:44:47 UTC-5, Massimo Di Pierro wrote: We'll break backward compatibility for this adapter and we'll blame MS for it. On Friday, 16 March 2012 15:07:50 UTC-5, Joaquin Orbe wrote: Hi Massimo, I've took a look into

Re: [web2py] Re: TEXT data type deprecated in future MSSQL?

2012-03-16 Thread Joaquin Orbe
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Massimo Di Pierro massimo.dipie...@gmail.com wrote: P.S. Please open a google code ticket about it. Done: http://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/detail?id=722 Regards, Joaco.