diff --git a/db/migrate/20190409211358_change_media_url_column_type.rb b/db/migrate/20190409211358_change_media_url_column_type.rb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..23513c269
--- /dev/null
+++ b/db/migrate/20190409211358_change_media_url_column_type.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+class ChangeMediaUrlColumnType < ActiveRecord::Migration[5.2]
+  def up
+    change_column :media, :url, :text, limit: 65535
+    add_index :media, :url, name: 'index_media_on_url', length: 100
+  end
+
+  def down
+    remove_index :media, name: "index_media_on_url", column: :url
+    change_column :media, :url, :string
+  end
+end
diff --git a/db/schema.rb b/db/schema.rb
index c7165aacd..56711e7a6 100644
--- a/db/schema.rb
+++ b/db/schema.rb
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 #
 # It's strongly recommended that you check this file into your version control system.
 
-ActiveRecord::Schema.define(version: 2019_03_02_161113) do
+ActiveRecord::Schema.define(version: 2019_04_09_211358) do
 
   create_table "active_storage_attachments", options: "ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4 COLLATE=utf8mb4_bin", force: :cascade do |t|
     t.string "name", limit: 191, null: false
@@ -193,11 +193,12 @@
     t.datetime "created"
     t.string "media_type", limit: 80
     t.datetime "updated"
-    t.string "url", null: false
+    t.text "url", null: false
     t.integer "version"
     t.bigint "dataset", null: false
     t.index ["dataset", "updated"], name: "dataset_updated"
     t.index ["dataset"], name: "FK62F6FE44D3D6B1B"
+    t.index ["url"], name: "index_media_on_url", length: 100
   end
 
   create_table "metadata", options: "ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8", force: :cascade do |t|