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SQL LEN() Function


LEN() Function

The LEN() function returns the length of the value in a text field.

SQL LEN() Syntax

SELECT LEN(column_name) FROM table_name;

In MySQL, the function is LENGTH():

SELECT LENGTH(column_name) FROM table_name;

Demo Database

In this tutorial, we will use the tutorialpro sample database.

Below is the data from the "Websites" table:

+----+--------------+---------------------------+-------+---------+
| id | name         | url                       | alexa | country |
+----+--------------+---------------------------+-------+---------+
| 1  | Google       | https://www.google.cm/    | 1     | USA     |
| 2  | Taobao       | https://www.taobao.com/   | 13    | CN      |
| 3  | tutorialpro.org      | http://www.tutorialpro.org/    | 4689  | CN      |
| 4  | Weibo        | http://weibo.com/         | 20    | CN      |
| 5  | Facebook     | https://www.facebook.com/ | 3     | USA     |
| 7  | Stackoverflow | http://stackoverflow.com/ |   0 | IND     |
+----+---------------+---------------------------+-------+---------+

SQL LEN() Example

The following SQL statement selects the lengths of the values in the "name" and "url" columns from the "Websites" table:

Example

Executing the above SQL outputs the following results:

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