[hibernate-issues] [Hibernate-JIRA] Commented: (HHH-3965) Expose the ability to use varchar(max) or nvarchar(max)

Expose the ability to use varchar(max) or nvarchar(max) ------------------------------------------------------- Key: HHH-3965 URL: http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/browse/HHH-3965 Project: Hibernate Core Issue Type: Bug Components: core Affects Versions: 3.3.1 Environment: Hibernate 3.4.0GA as provider for JPA 1.0 - SQL Server 2005 Database Reporter: Ido Ran Priority: Blocker Original Estimate: 2 hours Remaining Estimate: 2 hours I have an entity which needs to store long text field (at least 30,000 characters). I use SQL Server 2005 as back-end database. SQL Server varchar support up-to 8,000 characters in length of a field, or the reserved word MAX which indicate that the field length will be 2^31-1. I think that the class SQLServerDialect should be changed to have the following line in it's ctor: registerColumnType( Types.VARCHAR, 8001, "varchar(MAX)" ); this way, all String fields with length above 8000 will have varchar(MAX) as column type.