# Design a table for blog articles

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Domain: Data Modeling · Difficulty: medium

## Problem

Design a table for blog articles. Choose between VARCHAR and TEXT for each column based on whether the content has a natural length limit or is unbounded. Titles and slugs have limits; body content does not.

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