[mysql] MySQL: Large VARCHAR vs. TEXT?

Varchar is for small data like email addresses, while Text is for much bigger data like news articles, Blob for binary data such as images.

The performance of Varchar is more powerful because it runs completely from memory, but this will not be the case if data is too big like varchar(4000) for example.

Text, on the other hand, does not stick to memory and is affected by disk performance, but you can avoid that by separating text data in a separate table and apply a left join query to retrieve text data.

Blob is much slower so use it only if you don't have much data like 10000 images which will cost 10000 records.

Follow these tips for maximum speed and performance:

  1. Use varchar for name, titles, emails

  2. Use Text for large data

  3. Separate text in different tables

  4. Use Left Join queries on an ID such as a phone number

  5. If you are going to use Blob apply the same tips as in Text

This will make queries cost milliseconds on tables with data >10 M and size up to 10GB guaranteed.

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