我想说的是，宁可走偏高的那条路。因为您可能会使用varchar，所以您允许的任何额外空间实际上都不会占用任何额外空间，除非有人需要它。我会说，对于名字(名或名)，至少要有50个字符，对于电子邮件地址，至少要有128个字符。有一些很长的电子邮件地址。

我喜欢做的另一件事是访问Lipsum.com，让它生成一些文本。这样，您就可以很好地了解100个字节是什么样子。

一些几乎肯定正确的列长度

                            Min Max

Hostname                    1   255
Domain Name                 4   253
Email Address               7   254
Email Address [1]           3   254
Telephone Number            10  15      
Telephone Number [2]        3   26  
HTTP(S) URL w domain name   11  2083        
URL [3]                     6   2083    
Postal Code [4]             2   11
IP Address (incl ipv6)      7   45
Longitude                   numeric 9,6
Latitude                    numeric 8,6
Money[5]                    numeric 19,4

[1] Allow local domains or TLD-only domains
[2] Allow short numbers like 911 and extensions like 16045551212x12345
[3] Allow local domains, tv:// scheme
[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_postal_codes. Use max 12 if storing dash or space
[5] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/224462/storing-money-in-a-decimal-column-what-precision-and-scale

对个人名字的长篇大论

一个人的名字要么是多名(一个名字有多个可排序的组件)，要么是单名(一个名字只有一个组件)，要么是图画名(一个名字由一张图片表示——这是因为像Prince这样的人)。

一个人可以有多个名字，扮演不同的角色，比如法定的、已婚的、未婚的、首选的、绰号、笔名等。您可能有业务规则，例如“一个人一次只能有一个合法名称，但一次只能有多个笔名”。

一些例子:

names: [
  {
    type:"POLYNYM",
    role:"LEGAL",
    given:"George",
    middle:"Herman",
    moniker:"Babe",
    surname:"Ruth",
    generation:"JUNIOR"
  },
  {
    type:"MONONYM",
    role:"SOBRIQUET",
    mononym:"The Bambino" /* mononyms can be more than one word, but only one component */
  },
  {
    type:"MONONYM",
    role:"SOBRIQUET",
    mononym:"The Sultan of Swat"
  }
]

or

names: [
  {
    type:"POLYNYM",
    role:"PREFERRED",
    given:"Malcolm",
    surname:"X"
  },
  {
    type:"POLYNYM",
    role:"BIRTH",
    given:"Malcolm",
    surname:"Little"
  },
  {
    type:"POLYNYM",
    role:"LEGAL",
    given:"Malik",
    surname:"El-Shabazz"
  }
]

or

names:[
  {
    type:"POLYNYM",
    role:"LEGAL",
    given:"Prince",
    middle:"Rogers",
    surname:"Nelson"
  },
  {
    type:"MONONYM",
    role:"SOBRIQUET",
    mononym:"Prince"
  },
  {
    type:"PICTONYM",
    role:"LEGAL",
    url:"http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/af/Prince_logo.svg/130px-Prince_logo.svg.png"
  }
]

or

names:[
  {
    type:"POLYNYM",
    role:"LEGAL",
    given:"Juan Pablo",
    surname:"Fernández de Calderón",
    secondarySurname:"García-Iglesias" /* hispanic people often have two surnames. it can be impolite to use the wrong one. Portuguese and Spaniards differ as to which surname is important */
  }
]

名字、中间名、姓氏可以是多个单词，如“比利·鲍勃·桑顿”或“拉尔夫·沃恩·威廉姆斯”。

是varchar，对吧?所以不管你用50个还是25个，为了安全起见，最好用50个，我认为我见过的最长的是19个左右。姓更长

Just looking though my email archives, there are a number of pretty long "first" names (of course what is meant by first is variable by culture). One example is Krishnamurthy - which is 13 letters long. A good guess might be 20 to 25 letters based on this. Email should be much longer since you might have firstname.lastname@somedomain.com. Also, gmail and some other mail programs allow you to use firstname.lastname+sometag@somedomain.com where "sometag" is anything you want to put there so that you can use it to sort incoming emails. I frequently run into web forms that don't allow me to put in my full email address without considering any tags. So, if you need a fixed email field maybe something like 25.25+15@20.3 in characters for a total of 90 characters (if I did my math right!).

我几乎总是使用2的幂，除非有很好的理由不这样做，比如在面向客户的界面上，其他一些数字对客户有特殊的意义。

如果你坚持使用2的幂，那么你就可以在一个有限的常见大小范围内，这本身就是一件好事，它可以让你更容易猜测你可能遇到的未知物体的大小。我看到很多人都在这么做，而且这种做法也很有美感。当我看到这些时，我通常会有一种良好的感觉，这意味着设计师像工程师或数学家一样思考。不过如果只用质数，我可能会担心。：）

我通常会选择:

名字:30个字符 姓氏:30个字符 电子邮件:50个字符 地址:200个字符

如果我担心名称字段太长，我有时也会将名称字段设置为50，因为现在存储空间很少成为问题。