What is the best datatype for storing URLs in a MySQL database?
The ideal would be something that doesn’t take up a lot of space but can easily handle variable length URLs.
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What is the best datatype for storing URLs in a MySQL database?
The ideal would be something that doesn’t take up a lot of space but can easily handle variable length URLs.
If by “links” you mean links to web pages, I’m guessing you want to store URLs.
Since URLs are variable length strings the
VARCHARdata type would seem the obvious choice.