adzie Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 Hello hope you can help with some questions I have. now regarding best practices when creating a database If I want to store a significant amount of text in a field what type of field would be the best for functionality and not in keeping the database size minimal. thanks in advance Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/85394-database-best-practices/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
teng84 Posted January 10, 2008 Share Posted January 10, 2008 look for the data types and it usage! and also normalization which is always being mentioned in this forum. this is very important Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/85394-database-best-practices/#findComment-436023 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenway Posted January 11, 2008 Share Posted January 11, 2008 Various flavours of TEXT come to mind... Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/85394-database-best-practices/#findComment-436699 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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