...BLOB column type. I'm making a note program that sends memos to each users, and memos could be way longer then 255 characters so the varchar type wouldn't do...

Err, this could just be me, but is there any reason you're not using the TEXT field type if it's just a memo? Similar to BLOB, but sorts are case insensitive and it's intuitive that the field contains text

See here.

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