At 19:15 +0200 11/4/02, Egor Egorov wrote:
Paul, Saturday, November 02, 2002, 5:11:43 PM, you wrote:P> I am kind of new to MySQL. I have ordered MySQL Cookbook but I still P> have a week before it arrives. In the meantime, I am looking for some P> basic help. P> I am looking to store the text/description for the purpose of retrieving P> it on the website. What would be the most appropriate way to store it? P> Text or long varchar (something like varchar(1000)? P> Which field supports full text search? P> Hob about if I want to store the description that is html formatted? P> Would that choice differ (TEXT/VARCHAR)? There is no long varchar in MySQL. You can find the maximum length for all column types here: http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Column_types.html Full-text search is supported on VARCHAR() and TEXT columns.
And CHAR().
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