DF202: The deprecated TEXT, NTEXT, or IMAGE data type is used.

The topic describes the DF202 T-SQL code analysis rule.

Category

DEPRECATED

Message

The deprecated TEXT, NTEXT, or IMAGE data type is used.

Description

The TEXT, NTEXT, and IMAGE data types are deprecated. It is recommended to use VARCHAR(MAX), NVARCHAR(MAX), and VARBINARY(MAX) data types instead.

Noncompliant code example

DECLARE @v TEXT;
SELECT @v AS txt
GO

Compliant solution

DECLARE @v NVARCHAR(max);
SELECT @v AS txt
GO