Is there a limit to how long a SQL query can be in SQL Server? [duplicate] Is there a limit to how long a SQL query can be in SQL Server? [duplicate] sql-server sql-server

Is there a limit to how long a SQL query can be in SQL Server? [duplicate]


I never encountered a problem of SQL query being too long in terms of number of characters, but there is a maximum number of tables a query can reference (256) and I hit this limitation a few times.

Have you ever encountered a query that SQL Server could not execute because it referenced too many tables?

UPDATE
In recent versions of SQL Server, the number of tables per SELECT statement is limited only by available resources.