Hi everybody,

I had the similar problem before and even documented it in this blog post

Dealing with the "The text, ntext, or image pointer value conflicts with the column name specified." error from Visual Foxpro

which came up the first link when I made a Google Search on the problem.

The situation is slightly different here. We have Items table that has 216 columns. Out of these 216 12 are TEXT columns (deprecated type) and one is varchar(max). 

We have some big data saved in 2 of the text columns (DataLength is ~400K). When we try to duplicate an existing item, we're getting the error in that blog's title. We're using old SQL Server 2000 ODBC driver to access the data from Visual FoxPro.

So, I am wondering what is the main factor here for the problem and how exactly should we overcome it. We found that the error doesn't happen if we remove content from that 2 big text files and also if we save that record first without that info in the text files but then apply these big text info back.

I am wondering if we would have the same error if we change all columns to varchar(max) from text.

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