vineld Posted July 26, 2009 Share Posted July 26, 2009 I have always been used to having varchar fields to store standard values such as e-mail, names etc. and text for longer texts such as various descriptions. However, since MySQL 5.0.3 the varchar field is no longer as limited in size as it used to be. Is there really any use for the text field anymore? Performance-wise varchar should always be preferable and if you need to store larger amounts of texts you would probably normally want to use files instead? Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/167450-use-for-text-fields/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenway Posted August 3, 2009 Share Posted August 3, 2009 Well, it's still limited to 65k. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/167450-use-for-text-fields/#findComment-889916 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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