DROP DATABASE IF EXISTS `mcol_4758`; CREATE DATABASE `mcol_4758`; USE `mcol_4758`; CREATE TABLE src (c0 INT, cLB LONGBLOB, cLT LONGTEXT)engine=columnstore default charset utf8mb4; SELECT column_name, data_type, column_length FROM information_schema.columnstore_columns WHERE hex(table_schema)=hex('mcol_4758') and hex(table_name)=hex('src'); column_name data_type column_length c0 int 4 clb blob 16777215 clt text 16777215 INSERT INTO src VALUES (1, "Pretty Bloby Thing", "This is some text"); select * from src where c0=1 and substr(cLT, 1, 4)="This"; c0 cLB cLT 1 Pretty Bloby Thing This is some text ALTER TABLE src ADD COLUMN (cLT2 LONGTEXT); UPDATE src SET cLT2="My Friday Night" where c0=1; select * from src where c0=1 and substr(cLT, 1, 4)="This"; c0 cLB cLT cLT2 1 Pretty Bloby Thing This is some text My Friday Night DROP DATABASE `mcol_4758`;