Is it possible to order sql data rows by the total number of characters?
e.g. SELECT * FROM database ORDER BY data.length()
Is it possible to order sql data rows by the total number of characters?
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Is it possible to order sql data rows by the total number of characters?
e.g. SELECT * FROM database ORDER BY data.length()
I think you want to use this: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/string-functions.html#function_char-length
(MySQL/MariaDB specific)
You can use just simply LENGTH(), but beware, because it counts the byte number (which won’t give you the expected result with multibyte strings).