Penalty of using MEDIUMTEXT?

My text is about 30k bytes to 200k bytes, mostly fall between 100k bytes.

TEXT is 65K Charators, so it is 130K bytes.
MEDIUMTEXT is much larger

Should I break the text into 2 or 3 or should I declare the field
MEDIUMTEXT? Will it slow down the database or take too much space?

"OttawaTrade" <speediercoREMOVE_THIS@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> My text is about 30k bytes to 200k bytes, mostly fall between 100k bytes.
>
> TEXT is 65K Charators, so it is 130K bytes.
> MEDIUMTEXT is much larger

Should be 2^24 which is 16MB.

> Should I break the text into 2 or 3 or should I declare the field
> MEDIUMTEXT? Will it slow down the database or take too much space?

I would go ahead and use MEDIUMTEXT. It shouldn't make any meaningful
difference in performance, and the storage requirement is just one more byte
per field, which is insignificant compared to the 30-200KB data.

The additional computation (and programming complexity for you) to keep the
fields broken apart like you describe would be much worse, IMHO.

Regards,
Bill K.