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PlanetScale Blog

MySQL data types: VARCHAR and CHAR

Overview Ever find yourself building a database only to start questioning what data types you should use for a specific column? In this entry of the MySQL data types series, we’ll explore the various ways you can save strings and text to a database to help demystify the options you have as a developer, starting with VARCHAR and CHAR. VARCHAR vs CHAR VARCHAR is probably the most widely used data type for strings. It stores a string of variable length up to a maximum of 65,535 characters. When cre

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Vercel Blog

How the world’s biggest YouTuber served millions of users on Vercel

How do you build a site to support peak traffic, when peak traffic means a fanbase of over 100 million Youtube subscribers? In this guest post, Julian Benegas, Head of Development at basement.studio, walks us through balancing performance, entertainment, and keeping "the buying flow" as the star of the show for MrBeast's new storefront. Read more

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