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BIT_LENGTH

Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition   ✅ Express Edition   ✅ Professional Edition   ✅ Enterprise Edition

The BIT_LENGTH() function calculates the length of a given string in bits.

SELECT bit_length('hello');
create.select(bitLength("hello")).fetch();

The result being

+------------+
| bit_length |
+------------+
|         40 |
+------------+
See BIT_LENGTH (binary) for a binary version of this function.

Dialect support

This example using jOOQ:

bitLength("hello")

Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:

Access, SQLDataWarehouse, SQLServer

(8 * len('hello'))

ASE

(8 * datalength('hello'))

Aurora MySQL, Aurora Postgres, CockroachDB, DuckDB, Exasol, Firebird, H2, HSQLDB, Informix, MariaDB, MySQL, Postgres, Redshift, Snowflake, Vertica, YugabyteDB

bit_length('hello')

BigQuery

(8 * byte_length('hello'))

ClickHouse, DB2, Derby, Hana, MemSQL, SQLite, Sybase, Teradata, Trino

(8 * length('hello'))

Oracle

(8 * lengthb('hello'))
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