How do I convert BLOB into VARCHAR in MySQL?

Question

It is in a shared host and I access with Navicat. I have field with BLOB and I want to convert it into VARCHAR. I\'ve tried in the design screen but everything was lost. I b

Answer 1

I found this of MySQL's Website if you are trying to change your column to a different data type and keep the new data type in the database. Works great for what I need!

ALTER TABLE table_name CHANGE col col1 varchar(100)