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Articles

Articles Database Table Structure

The following details the structure of the Articles table of the database.

Name Type Attribute NULL Default
art_id int(11) UNSIGNED No None
art_title_sort varchar(128)
No None
art_title varchar(256)
No None
art_date varchar(11)
Yes NULL
art_category varchar(128)
Yes NULL
art_source varchar(128)
Yes NULL
art_author varchar(64)
Yes NULL
art_position varchar(64)
Yes NULL
art_contributor varchar(128)
Yes NULL
art_prevnext varchar(9)
Yes NULL
art_ext_link varchar(256)
Yes NULL
art_styles mediumtext
Yes
art_text mediumtext
Yes
art_lat varchar(20)
Yes NULL
art_lon varchar(21)
Yes NULL
art_timestamp timestamp on update CURRENT_TIMESTAMP No 1/28/2024 1:42

The elements of the Articles table are as follows...

  1. Name - Identifies the name of the element.
  2. Type - Identifies the type of element and the length.
    • int(xx) - integer of length xx.
    • varchar(xxx) - variable length text of length xxx (Max length of 3000 characters).
    • mediumtext - Text with max length of 16,777,215 bytes (16MB)
    • timestamp - current date-time of record update.
  3. Attribute - Identifies the any attribute of the element.
  4. NULL - Identifies whether the element can be NULL.
  5. Default - Identifies the default of the element.