[Tutor] Mysql BLOB strangeness?

Kent Johnson kent37 at tds.net
Fri Mar 17 15:46:30 CET 2006


Adam Cripps wrote:
> On 3/17/06, Kent Johnson <kent37 at tds.net> wrote:
>>Why are you using a BLOB when the content is text?
> 
> I'm using BLOB because I want them to be able to write content that is
> longer than 255 chars.

I'm no MySQL expert but the docs say VARCHAR fields can be up to 65,535 
chars.

Kent



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