I've just run the following in SQL Server Management Studio 2008 R2 and it works as expected (592 characters):
declare @astring varbinary(MAX) = CONVERT(varbinary(MAX), 'Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.');
print convert(varchar(MAX), @astring)
Note that I changed @longerstring
to @astring
as part of this, as I do not know where @longerstring
came from.