Firstly, text is a reserved word in mysql. Secondly, varchars or chars
can only have 255 characters. You should use a text type column which
can be very large (megabytes!). You have read the manual on the
different field types?
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> Hi,
>
> I`m setting up a field in my DB called Description and basically want it to
> have a max character length of 1000, my MySQL manual tells me varchar is
> limited to 255 so thats out of the window then it goes on to say text has a
> max of 64 kb of text and defines all the others in this way. I did try
> entering as follows
>
> Description text(1000) but it isn`t accepting it
>
> should I be using something else??
>
> Ade
>
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