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MEDIUMBLOB

Syntax

MEDIUMBLOB

Description

A BLOB column with a maximum length of 16,777,215 (224 - 1) bytes. Each MEDIUMBLOB value is stored using a three-byte length prefix that indicates the number of bytes in the value.

LONG VARBINARY is a synonym for MEDIUMBLOB

EXAMPLES

MEDIUMBLOB

Example of MEDIUMBLOB:

CREATE TABLE mediumblob_example (
   description VARCHAR(20),
   example MEDIUMBLOB
) DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1; -- One byte per char makes the examples clearer

INSERT INTO mediumblob_example VALUES
   ('Normal foo', 'foo'),
   ('Trailing spaces foo', 'foo      '),
   ('NULLed', NULL),
   ('Empty', ''),
   ('Maximum', RPAD('', 16777215, CHAR(7)));
SELECT description, LENGTH(example) AS length
   FROM mediumblob_example;
+---------------------+----------+
| description         | length   |
+---------------------+----------+
| Normal foo          |        3 |
| Trailing spaces foo |        9 |
| NULLed              |     NULL |
| Empty               |        0 |
| Maximum             | 16777215 |
+---------------------+----------+

Data Too Long

When SQL_MODE is strict (the default) a value is considered "too long" when its length exceeds the size of the data type, and an error is generated.

Example of data too long behavior for MEDIUMBLOB:

TRUNCATE mediumblob_example;
INSERT INTO mediumblob_example VALUES
   ('Overflow', RPAD('', 16777216, CHAR(7)));
ERROR 1406 (22001): Data too long for column 'example' at row 1

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