[thesite] Voting Application - initial DB ideas

[Warden, Matt]

On Jan 31, isaac had something to say about RE: [thesite] Voting...

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>> pretty much. you probably want to avoid memo tho.
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>What does mysql use for something that needs more than 255 chars (i.e., a
>couple paragraphs of description and links to archive postings, etc)?
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>(I won't need to know for this particular project, but I'm curious anyway).

TEXT fields: LONGTEXT (2^32 chars), MEDIUMTEXT (2^??? chars), TEXT (2^16
chars)

probably easy to find the size on MEDIUMTEXT on mysql.com if i weren't so
lazy...

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