DevPlanetScaleover 3 years ago
MySQL data types: VARCHAR and CHAR
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VARCHAR stores variable-length strings up to 65,535 characters with 1 or 2 bytes of overhead. CHAR stores fixed-length strings up to 255 characters, right-padded with spaces. VARCHAR allocates disk space based on content length, while CHAR always uses the defined length.
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