 sets and collations.
</p>

<p>Textual columns are columns of types <strong>CHAR</strong>, <strong>VARCHAR</strong>, <strong>TINYTEXT</strong>, <strong>MEDIUMTEXT</strong>, <strong>TEXT</strong>, <strong>LONGTEXT</strong>.
</p>

<p><strong>ENUM</strong> and <strong>SET</strong> types are excluded, although they, too, are associated with character sets and collations.
Internal representation of <strong>ENUM</strong> & <strong>SET</strong> is numeric.</p>

<h3>STRUCTURE</h3>

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