diff --git a/platforms/sqlserver/src/main/java/io/ebean/platform/sqlserver/SqlServer16Platform.java b/platforms/sqlserver/src/main/java/io/ebean/platform/sqlserver/SqlServer16Platform.java
index 0e09dc861..31cfab09b 100644
--- a/platforms/sqlserver/src/main/java/io/ebean/platform/sqlserver/SqlServer16Platform.java
+++ b/platforms/sqlserver/src/main/java/io/ebean/platform/sqlserver/SqlServer16Platform.java
@@ -17,12 +17,19 @@ public class SqlServer16Platform extends SqlServerBasePlatform {
     this.dbIdentity.setIdType(IdType.IDENTITY);
 
     // non-utf8 column types
+    DbPlatformType text = new DbPlatformType("text", false);
+    DbPlatformType varchar = new DbPlatformType("varchar", 255, 8000, text);
     dbTypeMap.put(DbType.CHAR, new DbPlatformType("char", 1));
-    dbTypeMap.put(DbType.VARCHAR, new DbPlatformType("varchar", 255));
-    dbTypeMap.put(DbType.LONGVARCHAR, new DbPlatformType("text"));
-    dbTypeMap.put(DbType.CLOB, new DbPlatformType("text"));
-    dbTypeMap.put(DbType.JSON, new DbPlatformType("text"));
-    dbTypeMap.put(DbType.JSONB, new DbPlatformType("text"));
+    dbTypeMap.put(DbType.VARCHAR, varchar);
+    dbTypeMap.put(DbType.LONGVARCHAR, text);
+    dbTypeMap.put(DbType.CLOB, text);
+    dbTypeMap.put(DbType.JSON, text);
+    dbTypeMap.put(DbType.JSONB, text);
+
+    // old binary type
+    dbTypeMap.put(DbType.BLOB, new DbPlatformType("image", false));
+    dbTypeMap.put(DbType.VARBINARY, new DbPlatformType("image", false));
+    dbTypeMap.put(DbType.LONGVARBINARY, new DbPlatformType("image", false));
   }
 
 }
diff --git a/platforms/sqlserver/src/main/java/io/ebean/platform/sqlserver/SqlServerBasePlatform.java b/platforms/sqlserver/src/main/java/io/ebean/platform/sqlserver/SqlServerBasePlatform.java
index 9d4bb37ee..8aeb9130e 100644
--- a/platforms/sqlserver/src/main/java/io/ebean/platform/sqlserver/SqlServerBasePlatform.java
+++ b/platforms/sqlserver/src/main/java/io/ebean/platform/sqlserver/SqlServerBasePlatform.java
@@ -65,13 +65,21 @@ abstract class SqlServerBasePlatform extends DatabasePlatform {
     dbTypeMap.put(DbType.LOCALDATETIME, new DbPlatformType("datetime2"));
     // UTF8 aware types - overwritten in SqlServer16 platform
     dbTypeMap.put(DbType.CHAR, new DbPlatformType("nchar", 1));
-    dbTypeMap.put(DbType.VARCHAR, new DbPlatformType("nvarchar", 255));
-    dbTypeMap.put(DbType.LONGVARCHAR, new DbPlatformType("nvarchar", Integer.MAX_VALUE));
-    dbTypeMap.put(DbType.CLOB, new DbPlatformType("nvarchar", Integer.MAX_VALUE));
-    dbTypeMap.put(DbType.JSON, new DbPlatformType("nvarchar", Integer.MAX_VALUE));
-    dbTypeMap.put(DbType.JSONB, new DbPlatformType("nvarchar", Integer.MAX_VALUE));
-    dbTypeMap.put(DbType.BLOB, new DbPlatformType("image"));
-    dbTypeMap.put(DbType.LONGVARBINARY, new DbPlatformType("image"));
+
+    DbPlatformType longVarchar = new DbPlatformType("nvarchar(max)", false);
+    DbPlatformType varchar = new DbPlatformType("nvarchar", 255, 4000, longVarchar);
+    DbPlatformType json = new DbPlatformType("nvarchar(max)", 0, varchar);
+    dbTypeMap.put(DbType.VARCHAR, varchar);
+    dbTypeMap.put(DbType.LONGVARCHAR, longVarchar);
+    dbTypeMap.put(DbType.CLOB, longVarchar);
+    dbTypeMap.put(DbType.JSON, json);
+    dbTypeMap.put(DbType.JSONB, json);
+
+    DbPlatformType blob = new DbPlatformType("varbinary(max)", false);
+    dbTypeMap.put(DbType.VARBINARY, new DbPlatformType("varbinary", 255, 8000, blob));
+
+    dbTypeMap.put(DbType.BLOB, blob);
+    dbTypeMap.put(DbType.LONGVARBINARY, blob);
   }
 
   @Override