Hello Everyone!,
I just subscribed to this list. I am in to my first MySQL project - A
charity auction on the Web.
I am defining four tables for a MySQL Web Database to run on NT. The tables
contain mostly text type columns with an autoinc rec number and char itemid.
Question: Is there any disadvantage to using MySQL datatypes "Text" or
"TinyText" for textual type columns.
For columns such as "Address", I now have VarChar(64) to allow enough space
for the longest resonable entry. But if I used "TinyText", I would not have
to worry about the 65 char address (which will probably be the first one :) ).
Other than "TinyText" can't be an index field - which it won't. Do I pay a
penalty? Do I gain anything? - other than flexibility.
Thanks much for your insight.
Barry.
