13.3 String Data Types

13.3.1 String Data Type Syntax

13.3.2 The CHAR and VARCHAR Types

13.3.3 The BINARY and VARBINARY Types

13.3.4 The BLOB and TEXT Types

13.3.5 The ENUM Type

13.3.6 The SET Type

The string data types are CHAR, VARCHAR, BINARY, VARBINARY, BLOB, TEXT, ENUM, and SET.

For information about storage requirements of the string data types, see Section 13.7, “Data Type Storage Requirements”.

For descriptions of functions that operate on string values, see Section 14.8, “String Functions and Operators”.