MySQL – Get Max Length of Column

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Similar to Max Length of Data In Column – MSSQL this query will do the same for MySQL

Replace host (column) along with hosts (table) with what you’d like to check

SELECT host
	,LENGTH(host) AS mlen
FROM hosts
ORDER BY mlen DESC
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