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title Guidelines and Limitations of DiffGrams in SQLXML | Microsoft Docs
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Guidelines and Limitations of DiffGrams in SQLXML

Remember the following when using DiffGrams with SQLXML 4.0:

  • Binary large object (BLOB) types like text/ntext and images should not be used in the <diffgr:before> block in when working with DiffGrams, because this will include them for use in concurrency control. This can cause problems with [!INCLUDEssNoVersion] because of the limitations on comparison for BLOB types. For example, the LIKE keyword is used in the WHERE clause for comparing between columns of the text data type; however, comparisons will fail in the case of BLOB types where the size of the data is greater than 8K.

  • Special characters in ntext data can cause problems with SQLXML 4.0 because of the limitations on comparison for BLOB types. For example, the use of "[Serializable]" in the <diffgr:before> block of a DiffGram when used in concurrency checking of a column of ntext type will fail with the following SQLOLEDB error description:

    Empty update, no updatable rows found   Transaction aborted