SQL LEN() Function
The LEN() Function
The LEN() function returns the length of the value in a text field.
SQL LEN() Syntax
| SELECT LEN(column_name) FROM table_name |
SQL LEN() Example
We have the following "Persons" table:
| P_Id |
LastName |
FirstName |
Address |
City |
| 1 |
Hansen |
Ola |
Timoteivn 10 |
Sandnes |
| 2 |
Svendson |
Tove |
Borgvn 23 |
Sandnes |
| 3 |
Pettersen |
Kari |
Storgt 20 |
Stavanger |
Now we want to select the length of the values in the "Address" column above.
We use the following SELECT statement:
| SELECT LEN(Address) as LengthOfAddress FROM Persons |
The result-set will look like this:
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