[Tutor] Mysql BLOB strangeness?

[Liam Clarke]

Erk. MySQL 4. I imagine that has TEXT data-types also?

On 3/18/06, Adam Cripps <kabads at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/17/06, Kent Johnson <kent37 at tds.net> wrote:
> > 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.
>
>
> 65,535 for version 5.0.3 upwards - and I'm running version 4 - so it
> appears that I'm stuck with Blob unless you know something that I
> don't?
>
> Adam
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