Summary for Data Types
Explore MySQL's diverse data types including numeric, date and time, string, spatial, and JSON. Understand each category's characteristics and their proper application to manage and manipulate data efficiently within MySQL databases.
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MySQL supports five data types categories: numeric, date and time, string, spatial, and JSON. The numeric data types can be distinguished into four categories, namely bit-value (e.g., BIT(M)), integer (e.g., INT), fixed-point (e.g., DECIMAL), and floating-point (e.g., FLOAT). For string types, MySQL provides eight distinct data types, e.g., TEXT, that serve different purposes. Likewise, there are eight data types for representing spatial data types. Simply specifying a column with the data type POINT SRID 4326 already enables the storage of a location in a geographic reference system ...