At 12:29 -0600 3/4/03, jason wesley upton wrote:
>I know that for most purposes you can treat TEXT and BLOB as VARCHAR
>under a longer name, but is the same true of LONGTEXT? I have a
>field
>that needs to be open to a huge amount of text, but I don't want my
>database's size to be huge if that maximum allowed amount of text is
>not used.
This is fairly easily answered by going to the online manual and entering
LONGTEXT into the search box. Two of the links you'll get that way are:
http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/BLOB.html
and
http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Storage_requirements.html
>
>Thanks.
>
>
> upton
>
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