NATIONAL VARCHAR

Overview

Variable-length string of specific character set with limit up to 65,535 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 NATIONAL VARCHAR:

  • NATIONAL CHAR VARYING

  • NATIONAL CHARACTER VARYING

  • NATIONAL VARCHARACTER

  • NCHAR VARCHAR

  • NCHAR VARCHARACTER

  • NCHAR VARYING

  • NVARCHAR

EXAMPLES

CREATE TABLE national_varchar_example (
  example NATIONAL VARCHAR(32)
);

SHOW CREATE TABLE national_varchar_example\G

*************************** 1. row ***************************
       Table: national_varchar_example
Create Table: CREATE TABLE `national_varchar_example` (
  `example` varchar(32) CHARACTER SET utf8 DEFAULT NULL
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1

CHANGE HISTORY

Release Series

History

10.6 Enterprise

  • Present starting in MariaDB Enterprise Server 10.6.4-1.

10.6 Community

  • Present starting in MariaDB Community Server 10.6.0.

10.5 Enterprise

  • Present starting in MariaDB Enterprise Server 10.5.3-1.

10.5 Community

  • Present starting in MariaDB Community Server 10.5.0.

10.4 Enterprise

  • Present starting in MariaDB Enterprise Server 10.4.6-1.

10.4 Community

  • Present starting in MariaDB Community Server 10.4.0.

10.3 Enterprise

  • Present starting in MariaDB Enterprise Server 10.3.16-1.

10.3 Community

  • Present starting in MariaDB Community Server 10.3.0.

10.2 Enterprise

  • Present starting in MariaDB Enterprise Server 10.2.25-1.

10.2 Community

  • Present starting in MariaDB Community Server 10.2.0.

EXTERNAL REFERENCES