MySQL supports the following string data types:

► CHAR(n) same as CHARACTER(n) - Fixed width and " " padded characters strings. Default character set is ASCII.

► NCHAR(n) same as NATIONAL CHARACTER(n) - Fixed width and " " padded character strings with UTF8 character set.

► VARCHAR(n) same as CHARACTER VARYING(n) - Variable width character strings. Default character set is ASCII.

► NVARCHAR(n) same as NATIONAL CHARACTER VARYING(n) - Variable width character strings with UTF8 character set.

► BINARY(n) - Fixed width and 0x00 padded byte strings.

► VARBINARY(n) same as BINARY VARYING(n) - Variable width byte string.

► TINYBLOB - BLOB (Binary Large Object) upto 255 bytes.

► BLOB - BLOB (Binary Large Object) upto 64K bytes.

► MEDIUMBLOB - BLOB (Binary Large Object) upto 16M bytes.

► LONGBLOB - BLOB (Binary Large Object) upto 4G bytes.

► TINYTEXT - CLOB (Binary Large Object) upto 255 characters.

► TEXT - CLOB (Binary Large Object) upto 64K characters.

► MEDIUMTEXT - CLOB (Binary Large Object) upto 16M characters.

► LONGTEXT - CLOB (Binary Large Object) upto 4G characters.

► ENUM - An enumeration to hold one entry of some pre-defined strings.

► SET - A set to hold zero or more entries of some pre-defined strings.