[thelist] 8k Row limits must Go!

James Aylard thelist at lists.evolt.org
Wed Jul 10 16:11:01 2002


Rob,

> I do agree that the data type "text" does allow my users to enter data
> longer than that. However, when I go to retrieve that data into a
> <textarea></textarea> for example, the info appears missing; nor can be
> displayed (asp 2.0) <%=article.fields.item(CMSFeatureBody).value%>.

    Another technique is to use the FileSystemObject to plunk the text into
a text file, and then simply store the file path or name in the database.
Then when you display the article on your page, you use FSO again to read
the text file and drop it within your textarea element.

James Aylard