MAX VARCHAR Lenght

"Melissa Dougherty" <[email protected]> Tue, 21 Nov 2006 14:02:39 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.mysql.windows
Message-ID <002c01c70d9f$9d634bc0$3c0a0a0a@denterprise1>
Can anyone explain what this means??

(The maximum effective length of a VARCHAR in MySQL 5.0.3 and later is determined by the maximum row size and the character set used. The maximum column length is subject to a row size of 65,532 bytes.) 


If I'm using the Latin1 character set, how large can my VARCHAR column be in length?  Is there a page to reference in the documentation?

Melissa