@cebe In general I would prefer to see the most portable SQL generated in Yii. Correct me if I am wrong but I think `STRING` is a CUBRID special.

CUBRID's `VARCHAR` ought to suffice here, either without a `(n)` suffix or with a large one:

> Variable-length character strings are represented as VARCHAR (n), where n represents the number of characters. If n is not specified, the value is specified as 1,073,741,823, the maximum length. [http://www.cubrid.org/manual/91/en/sql/datatype.html#varchar-n-char-varying-n](http://www.cubrid.org/manual/91/en/sql/datatype.html#varchar-n-char-varying-n)

Any argument along the lines of "we do it like this in MySQL, so..." is going to make me nervous.