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Asked: 2026-05-14T01:35:36+00:00

I’m creating a database with what I anticipate will be a long (perhaps several

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I’m creating a database with what I anticipate will be a long (perhaps several paragraphs for some tuples) attribute. I’m assigning it text instead of varchar. I have two questions:

  1. Should I give a maximum value for the text field? Is this necessary? Is it useful?
  2. Since the contents of this field will be displayed on a website in HTML, do I need to include paragraph tags for paragraph formatting when I enter records into mysql?
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  1. Editorial Team
    1. Not really, define as text.
    2. If you want to display text in HTML with formatting you will either have to build the HTML tags into the text in the database or parse before printing and add them then.
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