Re: changed behaviour of textptr sp122, sp134/sp135

Hi

Thanks for this - it might help us with another issue we've been having with performance of text fields.

I don't have access to anything less than SP134 so would appreciate if you can see if the space usage changes between the 2 versions.

When I run sp_spaceused on one of my tables where ALL the text fields are null it shows huge space usage.

name        rowtotal  reserved          data           index_size       unused

Messages 56099    1048752 KB     7856 KB    1024128 KB     16560 KB

If I create the same table but use a varchar instead of a text field I get

name        rowtotal  reserved          data           index_size       unused

Messages 56099    6144 KB           4704 KB     864 KB            528 KB

It looks like the text field has 16k pre-allocate to it (Our server is set to 16k pages).

Could you see what the difference in spaceused is for your tables on SP< 134 and SP134.

(Have you reported it as an incident ?)

Thanks

Mike