varchar

A varchar or Variable Character Field is a set of character data of indeterminate length. The term varchar refers to a data type of a field (or column) in a database management system which can hold letters and numbers. Varchar fields can be of any size up to a limit, which varies by databases: an Oracle 11g database has a limit of 4000 bytes,[1] a MySQL 5.7 database has a limit of 65,535 bytes (for the entire row)[2] and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 has a limit of 8000 characters (unless varchar(max) is used, which has a maximum storage capacity of 2 gigabytes).[3]

References

  1. ↑ https://docs.oracle.com/cd/B28359_01/server.111/b28318/datatype.htm#i1835
  2. ↑ https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/char.html
  3. ↑ https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms176089.aspx


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