Should be fine if you have enough resources. Your options are 255 characters or
64K 2^24-1 bytes 2^32-1 bytes So 64K looks like a winner. I doubt notes will take more then a few pages. -----Original Message----- From: Chris Kavanagh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 10:08 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Opinions: notes field ideal length? Dear list, Quick question. What's a reasonable length for a notes-type field? I couldn't really find any guidelines on the web so I'm thinking of just setting it to 65,535. Or is that ridiculously long? Thanks list, CK. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]