How can I store long text data in embedded SQL Server CE database of C# application?

Question

I am working on a C# application. I use an embedded SQL Server CE database.

I want to store long text data in that database, but there is limit of 4000 char on the nvarchar datatype in the SQL Server CE database ( .sdf ).

Is there any solution for it? How can I store long text data in embedded C# application? or should i go for any other embedded database?

Answer 1

You can use the ntext data type in the SQL Server CE database.

This MSDN page contains more information:

ntext: Variable-length Unicode data with a maximum length of (2^30–2)/2 (536,870,911) characters. Storage size, in bytes, is two times the number of characters entered.