MEDIUMBLOB
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Topics on this page:
Overview
String for variable-length binary data up to 16,777,215 bytes.
See also: Data Types in 10.6 ES, in 10.6 CS, in 10.5 ES, in 10.5 CS, in 10.4 ES, in 10.4 CS, in 10.3 ES, in 10.3 CS, in 10.2 ES, and in 10.2 CS
DETAILS
SYNONYMS
The following are synonyms for MEDIUMBLOB:
LONG VARBINARY
EXAMPLES
MEDIUMBLOB
Example of MEDIUMBLOB:
CREATE TABLE mediumblob_example (
description VARCHAR(20),
example MEDIUMBLOB
);
INSERT INTO mediumblob_example VALUES
('Normal foo', 'foo'),
('Trailing spaces foo', 'foo '),
('NULLed', NULL),
('Empty', ''),
('Maximum', RPAD('', 16777215, CHAR(7)));
SELECT description, LENGTH(example) AS length
FROM mediumblob_example;
+---------------------+----------+
| description | length |
+---------------------+----------+
| Normal foo | 3 |
| Trailing spaces foo | 9 |
| NULLed | NULL |
| Empty | 0 |
| Maximum | 16777215 |
+---------------------+----------+
Data too long
When SQL_MODE is strict (the default) a value is considered "too long" when its length exceeds the size of the data type, and an error is generated.
Example of data too long behavior for MEDIUMBLOB:
TRUNCATE mediumblob_example;
INSERT INTO mediumblob_example VALUES
('Overflow', RPAD('', 16777216, CHAR(7)));
ERROR 1406 (22001): Data too long for column 'example' at row 1
CHANGE HISTORY
Release Series | History |
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10.6 Enterprise |
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10.6 Community |
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10.5 Enterprise |
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10.5 Community |
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10.4 Enterprise |
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10.4 Community |
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10.3 Enterprise |
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10.3 Community |
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10.2 Enterprise |
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10.2 Community |
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EXTERNAL REFERENCES
Additional information on this topic may be found in the MariaDB Public Knowledge Base.
Information specific to MariaDB SkySQL can be found on the MEDIUMBLOB page in the SkySQL Documentation.