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What's the difference between CHAR_LENGTH and LENGTH?
By prabeen patra
What's the difference between CHAR_LENGTH and LENGTH?
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Teacher SiliconIndia replied to prabeen patra Thursday, March 18, 2010
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.