Thread: Re: [ADMIN] Field Size

Re: [ADMIN] Field Size

From
Bruno Wolff III
Date:
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 18:36:57 +0530,
  Somasekhar Bangalore <sbangalore@zensutra.com> wrote:
> There is no harm in having a field size of 1000 character provided u use the proper datatype. Don't user char(1000).
Tryusing varchar(1000). 

And if the 1000 limit is just a large number you picked rather than a
real rule for your data, then you probably want to use the TEXT type.