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Asked: 2026-05-23T06:24:35+00:00

I want a create a column that needs to store unknown length strings. I

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I want a create a column that needs to store unknown length strings.

I am making a parsing of some file and pushing it’s content to the DB and I have no idea about the length , can be pretty big.

So is there any equivalent to String type ?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Depends on what your storing…

    • CHAR is a fixed length string
    • VARCHAR is a variable length string
    • TINYTEXT/TEXT/MEDIUMTEXT/LONGTEXT is a text field (long string)

    Choose the format that is most appropriate for what your storing.
    See http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/blob.html for more information on the TEXT field and the differences.

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