At 11:37 AM 10/6/99 +0000, Archibald Zimonyi wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I'm trying to find a datatype that can contain more then 255 chars.
>So far in MySql I've only found the char and varchar datatypes that can
>contain any larger amount of text. My problem is that I might add whole
>essays into a field.
I think 'text' may do what you need but I must admit I do not know how
standard it is
>Another problem is that it should follow the ANSI-SQL standard so I'm
>working on a number of other databases as well. Can anyone give me an
>idea on what to do?
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hope that helps
