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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 | +--------+
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, EXASOL, FIREBIRD, H2, HSQLDB, INFORMIX, MARIADB, MEMSQL,
-- MYSQL, POSTGRES, REDSHIFT, VERTICA, YUGABYTEDB
char_length('hello')
-- DB2, DERBY, DUCKDB, HANA, ORACLE, SNOWFLAKE, SQLITE, SYBASE, TERADATA, TRINO
length('hello')
(These are currently generated with jOOQ 3.19, see #10141), or translate your own on our website
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