When the scripts start compaining, “[Native code: 1406] [Native message: Data too long for column …]”, check how much data you are actually trying to squeeze into a single field.
source: maximum length of data I can put in a BLOB column in MySQL?
BLOB ≈ 64KB,MEDIUMBLOB ≈ 16MB andLONGBLOB ≈ 4GB
Also: “The maximum size of a BLOB or TEXT object is determined by its type, but the largest value you actually can transmit between the client and server is determined by the amount of available memory and the size of the communications buffers.”
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/storage-requirements.html