Bug #69148 clarifications on bytes vs chars for extending varchars via online alter table
Submitted: 5 May 2013 13:22 Modified: 6 Jul 2015 15:24
Reporter: Shane Bester (Platinum Quality Contributor) Email Updates:
Status: Not a Bug Impact on me:
None 
Category:MySQL Server: Documentation Severity:S3 (Non-critical)
Version:5.7.2 OS:Any
Assigned to: Paul DuBois CPU Architecture:Any

File: Maximum allowed size is 50MB.
Description:
Privacy:

If the data you need to attach is more than 50MB, you should create a compressed archive of the data, split it to 50MB chunks, and upload each of them as a separate attachment.

To split a large file: