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String Data Types

Title Description
String Literals Strings are sequences of characters and are enclosed with quotes.
CHAR Fixed-length string.
VARCHAR Variable-length string.
BINARY Fixed-length binary byte string.
CHAR BYTE Alias for BINARY.
VARBINARY Variable-length binary byte string.
TINYBLOB Tiny binary large object up to 255 bytes.
BLOB Binary large object up to 65,535 bytes.
BLOB and TEXT Data Types Binary large object data types and the corresponding TEXT types.
MEDIUMBLOB Medium binary large object up to 16,777,215 bytes.
LONGBLOB Long BLOB holding up to 4GB.
TINYTEXT A TEXT column with a maximum length of 255 characters.
TEXT A TEXT column with a maximum length of 65,535 characters.
MEDIUMTEXT A TEXT column with a maximum length of 16,777,215 characters.
LONGTEXT A TEXT column with a maximum length of 4,294,967,295 characters.
JSON Data Type Compatibility data type that is an alias for LONGTEXT.
ENUM Enumeration, or string object that can have one value chosen from a list of values.
SET Data Type Set, or string object that can have 0 or more values chosen from a list of values.
Supported Character Sets and Collations MariaDB supports the following character sets and collations.
Character Sets and Collations Setting character set and collation for a language.
Data Type Storage Requirements Storage requirements for the various data types.
ROW Data type for stored procedure variables.
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