MySQL COMPRESS() function
COMPRESS() function
MySQL COMPRESS() function compress a string and returns the result as a binary string.
Nonempty strings are stored as a four-byte length of the uncompressed string (low byte first), followed by the compressed string. If the string ends with space, an extra "." character is added to avoid problems with end space trimming.
Empty strings are stored as empty strings.
Syntax:
COMPRESS(string_to_compress);
Argument:
Name | Description |
---|---|
string_to_compress | A string which is to be compressed. |
Syntax Diagram:

MySQL Version: 5.6
Example
Code:
SELECT COMPRESS('text'),LENGTH(COMPRESS('text'));
Explanation:
The above MySQL statement will compress the string text and also returns the length of the string after compression.
Sample Output:
mysql> SELECT COMPRESS('text'),LENGTH(COMPRESS('text')); +------------------+--------------------------+ | COMPRESS('text') | LENGTH(COMPRESS('text')) | +------------------+--------------------------+ | xœ+I( gÆ | 16 | +------------------+--------------------------+ 1 row in set (0.03 sec)
PHP script:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>example-compress - php mysql examples | w3resource</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
echo "<h2>Compressing the text 'text' and returning the
result as a binary string : </h2>";
echo "<table border='1' style='border-collapse: collapse;
border-color: silver;'>";
echo "<tr style='font-weight: bold;'>";
echo "<td width='100' align='center'>COMPRESS('text')</td><td width='100' align='center'>COMPRESS('text'), LENGTH(COMPRESS('text'))<
/td>";
echo "</tr>";
include("../dbopen.php");
$result = mysql_query("SELECT COMPRESS('text'),
LENGTH(COMPRESS('text')) as Length "); //Length is an alias
while($row=mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
echo "<tr>";
echo "<td align='center' width='200'>" .
$row["COMPRESS('text')"] . "</td>";
echo "<td align='center' width='200'>" .
$row["Length"] . "</td>";
echo "</tr>";
}
echo "</table>";
?>
</body>
</html>
Previous: AES_ENCRYPT()
Next: DECODE()
- New Content published on w3resource:
- HTML-CSS Practical: Exercises, Practice, Solution
- Java Regular Expression: Exercises, Practice, Solution
- Scala Programming Exercises, Practice, Solution
- Python Itertools exercises
- Python Numpy exercises
- Python GeoPy Package exercises
- Python Pandas exercises
- Python nltk exercises
- Python BeautifulSoup exercises
- Form Template
- Composer - PHP Package Manager
- PHPUnit - PHP Testing
- Laravel - PHP Framework
- Angular - JavaScript Framework
- Vue - JavaScript Framework
- Jest - JavaScript Testing Framework