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Is it possible and if so how to get only lets say 250 characters from a field with type “text” in my MySQL query?
Or should I better create a new field with type varchar(250) which would contain the brief text for article?
You can use SUBSTRING Function in MySQL:
For e.g.
SELECT SUBSTRING('CYBERNATE', 2, 3)would return YBE