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BIT_LENGTH
Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition
The BIT_LENGTH() function calculates the length of a given string in bits.
SELECT bit_length('hello');
create.select(bitLength("hello")).fetch();
The result being
+------------+ | bit_length | +------------+ | 40 | +------------+
Dialect support
This example using jOOQ:
bitLength("hello")
Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:
Access, SQLDataWarehouse, SQLServer
(8 * len('hello'))
ASE
(8 * datalength('hello'))
Aurora MySQL, Aurora Postgres, CockroachDB, DuckDB, Exasol, Firebird, H2, HSQLDB, Informix, MariaDB, MySQL, Postgres, Redshift, Snowflake, Vertica, YugabyteDB
bit_length('hello')
BigQuery
(8 * byte_length('hello'))
ClickHouse, DB2, Derby, Hana, MemSQL, SQLite, Sybase, Teradata, Trino
(8 * length('hello'))
Oracle
(8 * lengthb('hello'))
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