# Data types

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/data-types/246086>\
**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [December 6, 2007, 10:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/data-types/246086 "2007-12-06T22:52:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![theSchtickler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@theSchtickler](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/theSchtickler)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2007, 10:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/data-types/246086/1 "2007-12-06T22:52:38Z")

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Hi,

I was wondering what I have to do to store the following line in a mySQL database, at the moment I get nothing back when I ask for its value:

\<![CDATA[\<a href=“somehthing”\>something\</a\>]]\>

Does the type need to be on something other than VARCHAR? Is this a silly thing to do?

Thanks 🙂