Subject Re: Key size
Author ibfa2000
As far as I know, 255 bytes (and not 255 characters).

This means :

- 255 chars if you use 1-bytes chars (like charset ASCII or ISO8859_1)
- 127 chars if you use 2-bytes chars (like charset BIG_5)
- 84 chars if you use 3-bytes chars (like charset UNICODE_FSS)

HTH

Fabrice

> How big can primary key be?
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> Riho-Rene Ellermaa
> senior programmer
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