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Alternatives to VARCHAR in MySQL?

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Alternatives to VARCHAR in MySQL?

spearfish	31 Mar, 2008 - 05:30 AM Post #1
Monkey in Training Joined: 10 Mar, 2008 Posts: 746 Thanked: 2 times Dream Kudos: 225 My Contributions	Hey--- I'm just working on a PHP project that works with MySQL, where there's a field in a table that is volatile. Right now I'm using VARCHAR, but there's a limit of 255 characters for that. Is there an alternative that's like varchar but allows more characters? Thanks, Spear Edit #1: MySQL version is 5.0.16. It would've been easy if I had 5.0.3 :-( Edit #2: Well it's working now, I simply changed the size to 355 even though I'm not supposed to be able to do that I cite: ~Values in VARCHAR columns are variable-length strings. The length can be specified as a value from 0 to 255 before MySQL 5.0.3, and 0 to 65,535 in 5.0.3 and later versions. ~phpMyAdmin - 2.11.2.1 MySQL client version: 5.0.16 Used PHP extensions: mysql This post has been edited by spearfish: 31 Mar, 2008 - 05:42 AM
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girasquid	RE: Alternatives To VARCHAR In MySQL? 31 Mar, 2008 - 07:41 AM Post #2
Barbarbar Joined: 3 Oct, 2006 Posts: 1,299 Thanked: 19 times Dream Kudos: 725 My Contributions	If you're going to be using it to store long amounts of text, you could also try the text type - although I'm told that using best practices, if you do this, you should never be running SELECT queries based on the value in a text column.
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spearfish	RE: Alternatives To VARCHAR In MySQL? 31 Mar, 2008 - 06:15 PM Post #3
Monkey in Training Joined: 10 Mar, 2008 Posts: 746 Thanked: 2 times Dream Kudos: 225 My Contributions	Thanks, I'll look into that. Nope, I'm not selecting based on that.
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