Text how many characters

2001-07-22 Thread Tom Gao
Hi just out of curiosity how man chars does the type 'text' have ? I can't seem to find it on the mysql manual. Thanks Tom

Re: Text how many characters

2001-07-22 Thread Jeremy Zawodny
On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 05:39:24PM -0700, Tom Gao wrote: Hi just out of curiosity how man chars does the type 'text' have ? I can't seem to find it on the mysql manual. Search for storage requirements. Jeremy -- Jeremy D. Zawodny, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Technical Yahoo - Yahoo Finance Desk:

Re: Text how many characters

2001-07-22 Thread Nelson Goforth
According to _MySQL mSQL_, by Yarger et al (O'Reilly) the TEXT datatype holds 64KB of data. Since my math skills and understanding of character storate are, well...wretched, someone should check me on this: 64KB = 64000 bytes = 64,000 characters (@ 1 character/byte), (or better

Re: Text how many characters

2001-07-22 Thread Alexander Skwar
So sprach »Nelson Goforth« am 2001-07-22 um 09:00:13 -0600 : According to _MySQL mSQL_, by Yarger et al (O'Reilly) the TEXT datatype holds 64KB of data. Since my math skills and understanding of character storate are, well...wretched, someone should check me on this: 64KB = 64000