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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 |
+--------------+
See OCTET_LENGTH (binary) for a binary version of this function.

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')
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