When choosing “TEXT” as a type for a field in SQL, what should the length/values be? I have always skipped that field but just thought it might be an unsafe thing…
Am I right or do i need to set it to a certain number?
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When choosing “TEXT” as a type for a field in SQL, what should the length/values be? I have always skipped that field but just thought it might be an unsafe thing…
Am I right or do i need to set it to a certain number?
TEXT columns can have arbitrary length (for practical purposes, the length of a TEXT field is limited by available memory and buffers).
There is nothing inherently “unsafe” about TEXT columns. There are however a couple of caveats to be aware of, like MySQL only using the first 1024 bytes for sorting.
You can read more about all this on the the official MySQL documentation