TEXT
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Topics on this page:
Overview
String for variable-length text data 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
EXAMPLES
TEXT
Example of TEXT:
CREATE TABLE text_example (
description VARCHAR(20),
example TEXT
) DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1; -- One byte per char makes the examples clearer
INSERT INTO text_example VALUES
('Normal foo', 'foo'),
('Trailing spaces foo', 'foo '),
('NULLed', NULL),
('Empty', ''),
('Maximum', RPAD('', 65535, 'x'));
SELECT description, LENGTH(example) AS length
FROM text_example;
+---------------------+--------+
| description | length |
+---------------------+--------+
| Normal foo | 3 |
| Trailing spaces foo | 9 |
| NULLed | NULL |
| Empty | 0 |
| Maximum | 65535 |
+---------------------+--------+
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 TEXT:
TRUNCATE text_example;
INSERT INTO text_example VALUES
('Overflow', RPAD('', 65536, 'x'));
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 TEXT page in the SkySQL Documentation.