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Alternatives to varchar

Started by Dannii, March 28, 2007, 08:08:25 AM

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Dannii

March 28, 2007, 08:08:25 AM
Time for my inexperience with MySQL to be shown :P

I need to store a url in a table, but urls being the things they are, could be very long, or very short. I don't want to use a varchar column, even with a very long length, because it might not be long enough. What should I use instead?
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March 28, 2007, 12:12:34 PM
The only thing bigger that is easy to mess with would be the text type (which I believe, is internally the BLOB type).
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