best practices for variable size limitation

[nir pengas]

hi guys,

from the limitation presented for myslq RAM tables, what is best practice for storing large pieces of text or binary data?

i found this project: http://code.google.com/p/mysql-heap-dynamic-rows/
but i'm not sure i want to maintain someone else's code for production...

since a mem table has a default size of 16M, maybe it makes sense to strip text across multiple rows?

how will or did you approach this limitation?

thanks for your help.

~nir.