What is the Difference between VARCHAR and VARCHAR(MAX) Datatypes?

.VARCHAR stores variable-length character data whose range varies up to 8000 bytes; 

  Varchar(MAX) stores variable-length character data whose range may vary beyond 8000 bytes and till 2 GB. 

  

   TEXT datatype is going to be deprecated in future versions, and the usage of VARCHAR(MAX) is strongly recommended instead of TEXT datatypes.