Re: Too Many Columns ERROR 175..

2003-11-06 Thread Mike Kuhnkey
I knew I'd sound like an idiot.BUT... The imported text consists of a 'customer' generated message with large arraysand since I haven't figured out how to generate arrays in mySQL4.0 each array entry is a record. Since I'm trying to BULK LOAD the message (with as little intervention as p

Re: Too Many Columns ERROR 175..

2003-11-01 Thread Matt W
Hi Mike, >From the last paragraph at http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Storage_requirements.html "The maximum size of a row in a MyISAM table is 65534 bytes. Each BLOB and TEXT column accounts for only 5-9 bytes toward this size." I assume from this that a VARCHAR(255) column (or even VARCHAR(10)) wou

Re: Too Many Columns ERROR 175..

2003-11-01 Thread Martijn Tonies
> What is the relationship between "column name length", "Number of columns" and "max columns"? > > Upon creation of a table with +1700 columns (with approximately 25...30 characters per name) I get the "Too many columns" ERROR. As a complete sidenote: WHY 1700 columns??!! With regards, Mart