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OCTET_LENGTH
Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition
The OCTET_LENGTH() function calculates the length of a given string in bytes.
SELECT octet_length('hello');
create.select(octetLength("hello")).fetch();
The result being
+--------------+ | octet_length | +--------------+ | 5 | +--------------+
Dialect support
This example using jOOQ:
octetLength("hello")
Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:
Access, SQLDataWarehouse, SQLServer
len('hello')
ASE, Aurora MySQL, Aurora Postgres, BigQuery, CockroachDB, Exasol, Firebird, H2, HSQLDB, Informix, MariaDB, MemSQL, MySQL, Postgres, Redshift, Snowflake, Vertica, YugabyteDB
octet_length('hello')
ClickHouse, DB2, Derby, DuckDB, Hana, SQLite, Sybase, Teradata, Trino
length('hello')
Oracle
lengthb('hello')
(These are currently generated with jOOQ 3.20, see #10141), or translate your own on our website
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