title: What is the maximum range of varchar in MySQL?
body: <p>What is the maximum range of varchar in MySQL?</p>
  
  <p>I am using the latest version of MySQL and in many sites it is being told that the size is 255. But when i am trying to give a higher size like 500 or 1000, it works for me. So is there a maximum number for varchar datatype?</p>