From http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/data-size.html:
For MyISAM tables, if you don't have any variable-length columns (VARCHAR, TEXT, or BLOB columns), a fixed-size record format is used. This is faster but unfortunately may waste some space. See Section 14.1.3, “MyISAM Table Storage Formats”. You can hint that you want to have fixed length rows even if you have VARCHAR columns with the CREATE option ROW_FORMAT=fixed.
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In reply to Re: OT: MySQL - TEXT field efficiency? Do I include in table or separate? by trammell
in thread OT: MySQL - TEXT field efficiency? Do I include in table or separate? by TedPride

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