Why would you want this? What should happen to various types of encoding? Is everything UTF-8? Or ISO-8859-15 ...? Is your database configured according to what _all_ messages will have as their codepage?
Apart from having a database being discouraged, changing this datatype is far more dangerous. I would highly discourage you to walk this path. -- View this message in context: http://activemq.2283324.n4.nabble.com/Persist-messages-in-MySQL-as-text-instead-of-blob-tp4720250p4720261.html Sent from the ActiveMQ - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.