# Design a contacts table with appropriate string types

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Domain: Data Modeling · Difficulty: medium

## Problem

Design a contacts table with appropriate string types. Country codes are fixed-length (2 characters). Names and emails have natural limits. Notes can be arbitrarily long.

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