As we know TEXT data objects are useful for storing long-form text strings. The different TEXT objects offer a range of storage space from 255 bytes to 4 Gb. The following table shows the storage of different kinds of TEXT data type −
| Type of BLOB | Maximum amount of Data that can be stored | Overhead |
| TINYTEXT | Up to 255 bytes | 1 byte |
| TEXT | Up to 64 Kb | 2 bytes |
| MEDIUMTEXT | Up to 16 Mb | 3 bytes |
| LONGTEXT | Up to 4 Gb | 4 bytes |