MySQL Table with TEXT column

Question

I\'ve been working on a database and I have to deal with a TEXT field.

Now, I believe I\'ve seen some place mentioning it would be best to isolate the TEXT column fr

Answer 1

Now, I believe I've seen some place mentioning it would be best to isolate the TEXT column from the rest of the table(putting it in a table of its own). However, now I can't find this reference anywhere and since it was quite a while ago, I'm starting to think that maybe I misinterpreted this information.

You probably saw this, from the MySQL manual http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/optimize-character.html

If a table contains string columns such as name and address, but many queries do not retrieve those columns, consider splitting the string columns into a separate table and using join queries with a foreign key when necessary. When MySQL retrieves any value from a row, it reads a data block containing all the columns of that row (and possibly other adjacent rows). Keeping each row small, with only the most frequently used columns, allows more rows to fit in each data block. Such compact tables reduce disk I/O and memory usage for common queries.

Which indeed is telling you that in MySQL you are discouraged from keeping TEXT data (and BLOB, as written elsewhere) in tables frequently searched