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I'm working on a application which is kinda complex to explain how it works. But this is the situation I'm in,

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FIELD1 (TEXT) FIELD2(TEXT) FIELD3(TEXT) .........................FIELD70(TEXT)
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POSSIBLE DATA SIZE FOR A SINGLE FIELD: around 500 characters.

I have around 20 tables in a single database like this.

I know it's too bad idea to have this much column in a single table. But I have to go with this since It's went too far and can not modify number of columns.

Now I got some error like, "Row size too large (> 8126). Changing some columns to TEXT or BLOB or using ROW_FORMAT=DYNAMIC or ROW_FORMAT=COMPRESSED may help. In current row format, BLOB prefix of 768 bytes is stored inline."

WHAT I HAVE TRIED:

  • I altered the table as ROW_FORMAT=COMPRESSED. = didn't work out
  • I altered the table as ROW_FORMAT=DYNAMIC. = didn't work out
  • innodb_file_format = Barracuda = didn't work out
  • I altered the column to VARCHAR(500) = didn't work out
  • I altered the column to TEXT,BLOG,MEDIUMBLOG = didn't work out

What could be the actual error? I've seen plenty of the answers for this problem bur they are telling these above methods that I've tried and failed. PLEASE HELP ME TO SOLVE THIS

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    Are you getting the error when creating the table, when altering the table structure, or when inserting/manipulating rows? If the table created OK provide the results of running SHOW CREATE STATUS YourTableName to show what you currently have including what storage engine the table is using. Things like this will vary by storage type.
    – David Spillett
    Mar 7, 2014 at 8:54
  • Have you dropped and recreated the table after switching the innodb file format? Have you also used innodb_file_per_table too?
    – Jens W.
    Mar 7, 2014 at 9:34

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The problem is the row size limit for InnoDB tables, in this links you can find some approaches to solve this:

http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2011/04/07/innodb-row-size-limitation/
InnoDB create table error: "Row size too large"

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