MySQL: How to set the Primary Key on phpMyAdmin?

Question

Help! First time using phpMyAdmin. The column that I intend to set as a primary key is of TEXT in phpMyAdmin, it gave me an error message, the primary key can\'t be set! And I d

Answer 1

MySQL can index the first x characters of a column,but a TEXT type is of variable length so mysql cant assure the uniqueness of the column.If you still want text column,use VARCHAR.