* Dr. Internet columnist Steve Blass discusses the differences between MySQL character data types * Help Desk columnist Ron Nutter discusses the costs of data across a WAN ...

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The new type: Vector. Vector databases are particularly popular with developers for AI models.Developers can now also map this in MySQL with the column type VECTOR, which contains a list of 4-byte ...

The differences in processing efficiency between MySQL’s three character storage types should not have a big impact on processing times unless your data sets are extremely large.