11.3 String Data Types

11.3.1 String Data Type Syntax

11.3.2 The CHAR and VARCHAR Types

11.3.3 The BINARY and VARBINARY Types

11.3.4 The BLOB and TEXT Types

11.3.5 The ENUM Type

11.3.6 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 11.7, “Data Type Storage Requirements”.

For descriptions of functions that operate on string values, see Section 12.8, “String Functions and Operators”.