Question

I am saving some text in database say 1000 characters.
But I display only first 200 characters.

Method 1

I could save first 200 characters in one column
and the remaining in second column of sql table

Method 2

I can save everything in one column and while displaying I can
query for 200 characters

Answer 1

It would be “cleaner” to store everything in 1 column. and you can select only the first 200 characters like this

select substring(your_column, 1, 200) as your_column from your_table