Summary for String Functions

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MySQL provides data types for five categories of data: numeric, date and time, string, spatial, and JSON. The comparison operator = provides equality matching for strings but does not support pattern matching. For that purpose, MySQL provides the LIKE operator and the STRCMP function. Both work well for base cases of pattern matching but do not provide extended matching capabilities.

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