The following statement applies the CHARACTER_LENGTH function to the Name column, which is type VARCHAR(30) CHARACTER SET LATIN, to obtain the number of characters in each employee name:
SELECT Name, CHARACTER_LENGTH(Name)
FROM Employee;
The result is as follows (note that separator blanks are considered characters):
Name Character_Length(Name)
-------- ----------------------
Smith T 7
Newman P 8
Omura H 7
. .
Example Set 1: KanjiEBCDIC
FOR this server character set … |
AND example … |
CHARACTER_LENGTH returns … |
GRAPHIC |
ABC |
3 |
KANJI1 |
De<MNP > |
10 |
<><> |
4 |
Set 2: KanjiShift-JIS
FOR this server character set … |
AND example … |
CHARACTER_LENGTH returns … |
KANJI1 |
<><> |
10 |
D eF |
3 |
UNICODE |
ABC |
3 |
GRAPHIC |
ABC |
3 |
Set 3: KanjiEUC
FOR this server character set … |
AND example … |
CHARACTER_LENGTH returns … |
KANJI1 |
ss3 C ss3 D |
2 |
GRAPHIC |
2 |
UNICODE |
<><> |
0 |
dA ss2 B ss3 E |
4 |
LATIN |
ABC |
3 |