[dba-SQLServer] Selecting Text field

I posted this in December, but never got a response.  Maybe someone can
help?

 

I am using the following query to read a field defined as Text in SQL
Server 2000.  It is returning the length of the field as 1756 and won't
let me get at any more of the field.  In reality, this particular record
has a field length of close to 10,000 for the field in question.  The
purchased application (I can't see the code it uses) returns all of the
data, but I can only get at part of it using Enterprise Manager.  Does
anyone have suggestions or methods that they have used successfully?

 

DECLARE @textpointer varbinary(16),

            @textlength integer

SELECT @textpointer = TEXTPTR(C536870930),

            @textlength = DATALENGTH(C536870930) - 1000

FROM T97

WHERE C1 = 'TMS643891'

READTEXT T97.C536870930 @textpointer @textlength 1000

 

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