{"id":256,"date":"2011-05-21T00:37:57","date_gmt":"2011-05-21T10:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mymonkeydo.com\/?p=256"},"modified":"2011-05-21T00:37:57","modified_gmt":"2011-05-21T10:37:57","slug":"varchar-vs-text-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymonkeydo.com\/varchar-vs-text-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"VARCHAR vs TEXT Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wonder if VARCHAR(255) or TEXT is a better data type? \u00a0This thread suggests VARCHAR(255) is better because it is allowed to use MEMORY (or RAM). \u00a0The TEXT data type is not allowed in there.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/forums.mysql.com\/read.php?24,105964,105964#msg-105964\">http:\/\/forums.mysql.com\/read.php?24,105964,105964#msg-105964<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Although it was also found that a larger VARCHAR like VARCHAR(3000) has worse performance than TEXT (in MyISAM).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nicj.net\/2011\/01\/20\/mysql-text-vs-varchar-performance\">http:\/\/nicj.net\/2011\/01\/20\/mysql-text-vs-varchar-performance<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The general rule appears to be to use VARCHAR if it is less than 255 characters and to use TEXT if it&#8217;s 255 or more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,53],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - 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