diff --git a/typo3/sysext/frontend/ext_tables.sql b/typo3/sysext/frontend/ext_tables.sql
index bd1efdf146acd6f896833b81726d0fd4bafa15bc..4ad76027aa6d1a0d8b2e84a3701bea8744da8c9b 100644
--- a/typo3/sysext/frontend/ext_tables.sql
+++ b/typo3/sysext/frontend/ext_tables.sql
@@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ CREATE TABLE tt_content (
 	linkToTop tinyint(3) unsigned DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL,
 	file_collections text,
 	filelink_size tinyint(3) unsigned DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL,
-	filelink_sorting tinytext NOT NULL,
+	filelink_sorting varchar(10) DEFAULT '' NOT NULL,
 	target varchar(30) DEFAULT '' NOT NULL,
 	date int(10) unsigned DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL,
 	recursive tinyint(3) unsigned DEFAULT '0' NOT NULL,