I am currently doing screen scraping and storing in to a MySQL database, I used some of my columns as `answer_content varchar(255) NOT NULL,`but the problem is some of the data is getting truncated, I was reading following [blog post](http://www.pythian.com/news/1353/max-varchar-size/).

But I am not really sure if that is the solution: What is the best solution to save the text without getting them truncated? I am not doing this on a server side and currently doing on a person laptop.