why ever use TINYBLOB/TEXT -- isn't VARCHAR same size? (fwd)

[Carl Troein]

Carsten H. Pedersen writes:

 I assume that there is a small speed penalty in using TEXT/BLOB
 fields, as compared to VARCHARs.

I recall seeing some test where TEXT was actually faster, but
it might have been in some special situation. On the whole,
I think that being able to specify a length for CHAR is the
most important difference and the reason I use them for names
of things (I use TINYTEXT/TEXT for longer descriptions etc.)

//C - with a runny nose, a cup of tea, and a glass of Laphroaig



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Re: why ever use TINYBLOB/TEXT -- isn't VARCHAR same size? (fwd)

[Robert Alexander]

At 16:07 + 2001/11/13, Carl Troein wrote:
//C - with a runny nose, a cup of tea, and a glass of Laphroaig

...for medicinal purposes, of course.  :

My choice was McClellands, when reduced last week to a sorry-ass blob 
of protoplasm by the worst cold I've had in years.

Feeling much better now. Hope you are, too.

Yours in fine malts,
/Rob

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