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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:

(8 * len('hello'))

(8 * datalength('hello'))

bit_length('hello')

(8 * byte_length('hello'))

(8 * length('hello'))

(8 * lengthb('hello'))

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