How to store more than 255 char in MySQL database?

Question

I only get set the text field in MySQL to 255, if I want to store a data longer than 255 chars, what can I do?

Answer 1

Use TEXT datatype:

CREATE TABLE t_text (value TEXT NOT NULL);

INSERT
INTO    t_text
SELECT  RPAD('', 1000, '*');

SELECT  LENGTH(value)
FROM    t_text;

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1000