From: Kailash R Date: October 15 2011 11:13pm Subject: User defined Variables List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql/226063 Message-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001636498f2be5cdf604af5e8603 --001636498f2be5cdf604af5e8603 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I was wondering if there is a way to increase the size of user defined variables ? I am not able to attribute a type to them and when I assign @sql = 'a_text _field' , 'a_text_field' gets truncated if it exceeds the size of @sql. This is not wholesome as I am using @sql in a subsequent prepare statement and my procedure errors out with a sql syntax error. Any advice for this would help. thanks. --001636498f2be5cdf604af5e8603--