> I would like to find out what record in the table has
> the largest amount of characters. This way I could possibly
> decrease the varchar size (currently 100) to speed up the
> queries.
>
> My table is as below.
> CREATE TABLE competitor (
> CompetitorsName varchar(35) not null,
> Website varchar(100),
> ID int auto_increment not null primary key
> )
SELECT MAX(LENGTH(Website)) FROM competitor;
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