NHibernate SchemaExport does not create ntext columns

Question

I create a simple tool which uses SchemaExport to generate database & sql scripts. On a simple entity, one string property Description is expected a ntext column in SQL Server but infact it is nvarchar(255).

Do not sure that which part I was wrong, any advice is appreciated!

Below is my code, just create a console app + add NHibernate nuget package to run.

using System;
using NHibernate.Cfg;
using NHibernate.Dialect;
using NHibernate.Driver;
using NHibernate.Mapping.ByCode;
using NHibernate.Mapping.ByCode.Conformist;
using NHibernate.Tool.hbm2ddl;

namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
public class Item
{
    public int Id { get; set; }
    public string Description { get; set; }
}

public class ItemMap : ClassMapping<Item>
{
    public ItemMap()
    {
        Id(e => e.Id, m => m.Generator(Generators.Identity));

        Property(e => e.Description, m =>
        {
            m.NotNullable(true);
            m.Length(int.MaxValue);
        });
    }
}

class Program
{
    private const string ConnectionString = @"Data Source=.\SQLEXPRESS;Initial Catalog=db01;Integrated Security=True";

    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
        var modelMapper = BuildModelMapper();
        var configuration = GetConfiguration();
        configuration.AddDeserializedMapping(modelMapper.CompileMappingForAllExplicitlyAddedEntities(), null);

        try
        {
            new SchemaExport(configuration).Execute(false, true, false);
            Console.WriteLine("Done");
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            Console.WriteLine(ex);
        }
        Console.ReadLine();
    }

    private static ModelMapper BuildModelMapper()
    {
        var mm = new ModelMapper();
        mm.AddMapping(typeof(ItemMap));
        return mm;
    }

    private static Configuration GetConfiguration()
    {
        var cfg = new Configuration();

        cfg.DataBaseIntegration(db =>
        {
            db.Driver<SqlClientDriver>();
            db.Dialect<MsSql2008Dialect>();
            db.KeywordsAutoImport = Hbm2DDLKeyWords.AutoQuote;
            db.ConnectionString = ConnectionString;
            db.LogFormattedSql = true;
            db.LogSqlInConsole = true;
            db.AutoCommentSql = true;
        });

        return cfg;
    }
}
}

Answer 1

After some further reading, the ntext will be removed in future versions along with text and image https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187993.aspx

ntext , text, and image data types will be removed in a future version of Microsoft SQL Server. Avoid using these data types in new development work, and plan to modify applications that currently use them. Use nvarchar(max), varchar(max), and varbinary(max) instead.

So this code will work

Property(e => e.Description, m =>
    {
        m.NotNullable(true);
        m.Length(4001); // any value > 4K
    });