From: Paul DuBois Date: March 13 1999 2:37pm Subject: Re: How many characters are possible? List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/162 Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 8:09 AM -0600 3/13/1999, Thorsten Weigl wrote: >Hi, > >what is the maximum of characters in one field. I have to fill one field >with a text (round about 1.000 characters). If it is not possible, what >would be the solution? CHAR and VARCHAR are limited to 255 characters. You probably want a TEXT field. See chapter 7 of the MySQL manual, particularly: http://www.mysql.com/Manual_chapter/manual_Reference.html#Column_types and http://www.mysql.com/Manual_chapter/manual_Reference.html#Storage_requirements -- Paul DuBois, paul@stripped Northern League Chronicles: http://www.snake.net/nl/ Madison Black Wolf: http://www.primate.wisc.edu/people/dubois/blackwolf/