在SQL数据库中保存大型文本数据（保存在stringbuilder中）的最佳方法？

Question

I am using a desktop based windows form application ..need to save a huge text field in sql sever db .Which one is better

1. varbinary(max)

2. varchar(max)

3. Blob

4. Any other

Can anyone please explain the pros and cons .!

As it will be run in users desktop don't want to make an overhead (making the application slow/Crash their application)

Answer 1

Since you will store "huge text", assumed to be greater than 64kb, you should use MEDIUMTEXT or LONGTEXT .

MEDIUMTEXT – up to 16MB
LONGTEXT – up to 4GB

The actual problem will be data storage in terms of performance. TEXT and BLOB is stored off the table with the table just having a pointer to the location of the actual storage; depending on your hardware especially disk/io performance this may create a bottleneck.

varbinary and blob is for binary data.