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.