Storage Comparisons of ENUM and SET : ENUM : Data Type SQL / MySQL

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Storage Comparisons of ENUM and SET



+---------+------+--------------------+------------------------+
|Type     |Bytes |Storage Amounts     |Defined Values Allowed  |
+---------+------+--------------------+------------------------+
|ENUM     |1     |Single value,       |0 through 65,535        |
|         |      |using index number  |                        |
+---------+------+--------------------+------------------------+
|SET      |Up to 8|Multiple values,   | 0 through 64           |
|         |      |using actual values |                         | 
+---------+------+--------------------+------------------------+