Hi Brent, If i need to create a string column of length 1024 which one is best varchar or text. Although both support up to 65534 characters.
create table test1(details varchar(65534), roll varchar(100)); (table cannot be created) create table test2(details text, roll text); (table can be created) Thanks, On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 6:18 PM, Brent Baisley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You pretty much answered your own question. A char will always use the > same amount of space (the max size), regardless of how little data you > put in it. A varchar will only use enough space to store the data, so > the amount of space used for each record will be different. You can > also specify a max size for varchar. Text is like varchar, but with a > "fixed" max size of 65,000 characters. > > Brent Baisley > > On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 8:24 AM, Krishna Chandra Prajapati > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I would like to know the difference between char, varchar and text. > > > > char limit 255 character fixed length > > varchar limit 65,000 character variable length > > text limit 65,000 character variable length. > > > > -- > > Krishna Chandra Prajapati > > > -- Krishna Chandra Prajapati
