Posted by jack on 01/26/06 13:51

Hi,

I'm starting a classified ad web site and I've been wrestling with varchar
255 in my database for holding item descriptions but I notice on long
descriptions it doesn't carry over all the text. So I'm left with TEXT or
BLOB which after experimenting works but I'm not sure of any disadvantages
with either.
Can I get some feedback as what is recommended for something like this? I've
read the MySQL site regarding these two fields but it went way over my head!

thanks

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