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Re:“It's The Future” by chewbacha on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @10:57AM (#12305172)
varchar is different than a text field in mysql: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/blob.html

It stores text fields as blobs.

I suppose now the right way would be the json data type. It didn't exist when I was working with these servers though (or they were on a much older version of MySql) https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/json.html

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