LENGTH (binary)
Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition
The LENGTH() function calculates the length of a given binary string.
SELECT length(cast('hello' as bytea));
create.select(binaryLength("hello".getBytes())).fetch();
The result being
+--------+ | length | +--------+ | 5 | +--------+
See LENGTH for a text version of this function.
Dialect support
This example using jOOQ:
binaryLength("hello".getBytes())
Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:
Aurora Postgres, CockroachDB, Postgres, YugabyteDB
length(CAST(E'\\150\\145\\154\\154\\157' AS bytea))
Databricks, Redshift
length(X'68656C6C6F')
ASE, Access, Aurora MySQL, BigQuery, ClickHouse, DB2, Derby, DuckDB, Exasol, Firebird, H2, HSQLDB, Hana, Informix, MariaDB, MemSQL, MySQL, Oracle, SQLDataWarehouse, SQLServer, SQLite, Snowflake, Sybase, Teradata, Trino, Vertica
/* UNSUPPORTED */
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