VARCHAR(n)

VARCHAR(n) is a SQL data type in the Data Types category. Variable-length string with a maximum length. Most common string type. Efficient for varying-length data. The syntax is VARCHAR(max_length). It returns string. A typical example: CREATE TABLE users (name VARCHAR(100), email VARCHAR(255)); -- Stores up to max_length characters A close relative is INT, which standard integer type. Range: -2147483648 to 2147483647 (signed). Use BIGINT for larger values. A close relative is TEXT, which for large text content (up to 65535 bytes in MySQL). Variants: TINYTEXT, TEXT, MEDIUMTEXT, LONGTEXT. A close relative is BOOLEAN / BOOL, which stores TRUE or FALSE values. In MySQL, BOOLEAN is an alias for TINYINT(1) (0=false, 1=true). More about this category: SQL column data types — INT, VARCHAR, TEXT, BOOLEAN, DATE, TIMESTAMP, JSON, DECIMAL. Related Data Types entries: INT, TEXT, BOOLEAN / BOOL, DATE, TIMESTAMP / DATETIME, DECIMAL / NUMERIC, JSON, FLOAT / DOUBLE.