Character limit

Question

Hi Guys, 
 I have a requirement where the user has to fill in around 5000 characters in a paragraph field, is it possible to store 5000 characters to the database ?

Soma · Answer

There could be a possibility that total size of all fields in the table is more than the limit, 65535. Try changing all the varchar to text types. 
 Please refer this thread for more informations 
 stackoverflow.com/.../row-size-too-large-error-in-mysql-create-table-query