Hello!
I am developing a webpublishing system.
I use Jboss 3.0beta2 and currently the Hypersonic database.
Most of my attributes/colums are short strings (less than 255 characters). However I have one column that can be much longer. It is the column for my articles, the actuall text in each page.
My question is as follows:
What is the best datatype for me to use?
I do not know if the text is 200, 2000 or even 20000 characters long. Shall I use some huge varchar that I dont expect to break or should I use a Blob, or maybee some other solution?
Is Hypersonic, MySQL and JBoss good at handling Blobs?
Have I understood Blobs right if it is an object that contains for example a String of unknown size?
Will Hypersonic... treat it as a blob?
/Erik Turesson
