Forum : What's the difference between CHAR_LENGTH and LENGTH?
Brief description  about Online courses   join in Online courses
View prabeen  patra 's Profile

What's the difference between CHAR_LENGTH and LENGTH?

What's the difference between CHAR_LENGTH and LENGTH?
Asked by prabeen patra | Mar 18, 2010 |  Reply now
Replies (1)
View teacher siliconindia 's Profile
HiPrabeen,
The first is, naturally, the character count. The second is byte count. For the Latin characters the numbers are the same, but they're not the same for Unicode and other encodings.
Mar 18, 2010