Hi, As far as table size considerations and storage efficiency I have the following question:
I would like to store articles in mysql table. I will display only the title on one page. only title and first two sentences in two more pages. the whole article i will display in one page only if the user cliks to see all.... based on this: 1) apart from title and first two sentences, should i store the rest of the whole article (which is a lot more text) in the same table, or in another table or in another file or how? of course i prefer to store the whole article in one row of one table. but i am wondering if that way is efficient? 2) when storing sentences or paragraphs of the article, should i just assign TEXT variable to those columns? it looks like the easiest way, but as far as table size, is it efficient? for example limiting a columnsize with varchar() or something like that is it more efficient? or is there a trim function or something like that to help storing efficiency? Thanks ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]