On 3/17/06, Kent Johnson <kent37@[...].net>  wrote:
>  Adam Cripps wrote:
>  > On 3/17/06, Kent Johnson <kent37@[...].net> wrote:
>  >>Why are you using a BLOB when the content is text?
>  >
>  > I'm using BLOB because I want them to be able to write content that is
>  > longer than 255 chars.
> 
>  I'm no MySQL expert but the docs say VARCHAR fields can be up to 65,535
>  chars.


65,535 for version 5.0.3 upwards - and I'm running version 4 - so it
appears that I'm stuck with Blob unless you know something that I
don't?

Adam
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