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LENGTH
Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition
The LENGTH() function calculates the length of a given string.
SELECT length('hello');
create.select(length("hello")).fetch();
The result being
+--------+ | length | +--------+ | 5 | +--------+
See LENGTH (binary) for a binary version of this function.
Dialect support
This example using jOOQ:
length("hello")
Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:
Access, SQLDataWarehouse, SQLServer
len('hello')
ASE, Aurora MySQL, Aurora Postgres, BigQuery, CockroachDB, Databricks, Exasol, Firebird, H2, HSQLDB, Informix, MariaDB, MemSQL, MySQL, Postgres, Redshift, Vertica, YugabyteDB
char_length('hello')
ClickHouse, DB2, Derby, DuckDB, Hana, Oracle, SQLite, Snowflake, Sybase, Teradata, Trino
length('hello')
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