textsize-transact-sql.md

title	@@TEXTSIZE (Transact-SQL)
description	@@TEXTSIZE (Transact-SQL)
author	MikeRayMSFT
ms.author	mikeray
ms.date	09/18/2017
ms.service	sql
ms.subservice	t-sql
ms.topic	reference
ms.custom	ignite-2025
f1_keywords	@@TEXTSIZE @@TEXTSIZE_TSQL
helpviewer_keywords	SET statement, TEXTSIZE option SELECT statement [SQL Server], text size returned TEXTSIZE option @@TEXTSIZE function text size returned [SQL Server]
dev_langs	TSQL

@@TEXTSIZE (Transact-SQL)

[!INCLUDE SQL Server Azure SQL Database Azure SQL Managed Instance FabricSQLDB]

Returns the current value of the TEXTSIZE option.

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Syntax

@@TEXTSIZE  

Return Types

integer

Examples

The following example uses SELECT to display the @@TEXTSIZE value before and after it is changed with the SET``TEXTSIZE statement.

-- Set the TEXTSIZE option to the default size of 4096 bytes.  
SET TEXTSIZE 0  
SELECT @@TEXTSIZE AS 'Text Size'  
SET TEXTSIZE 2048  
SELECT @@TEXTSIZE AS 'Text Size'  

[!INCLUDEssResult]

Text Size
-----------
4096
Text Size
-----------
2048

See Also

Configuration Functions (Transact-SQL)
SET TEXTSIZE (Transact-SQL)