From: "Othmar Stehlik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> I´m writing a simple Guestbook in Java, but I´m not quite sure which SQL
> Datatype I should use for the user´s comments.
> VARCHAR is not big enough,


Try TEXT or TINYTEXT.

However, you may want to have a check in place before it goes into the
database to trim it down to a reasonable size in the event some joker
decides to paste a few thousand lines of text into the comments.



--
denonymous
www.coldcircuit.net



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