diff --git a/tests/strings_test.go b/tests/strings_test.go
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+++ b/tests/strings_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+package tests
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/localhots/bocadillo/mysql"
+)
+
+func TestStrings(t *testing.T) {
+	inputs := map[string][]string{}
+	for _, length := range []int{1, 10, 100, 255} {
+		inputs[fmt.Sprint(length)] = []string{
+			strings.Repeat("a", length),
+			strings.Repeat("1", length),
+			strings.Repeat("!", length),
+			// TODO: Support multi-byte and other encodings
+		}
+	}
+
+	for _, ct := range []mysql.ColumnType{mysql.ColumnTypeString, mysql.ColumnTypeVarchar} {
+		t.Run(ct.String(), func(t *testing.T) {
+			for length, vals := range inputs {
+				t.Run(length, func(t *testing.T) {
+					tbl := suite.createTable(ct, length, attrNone)
+					defer tbl.drop(t)
+
+					for _, v := range vals {
+						t.Run(fmt.Sprintf("%s x%d", v[:1], len(v)), func(t *testing.T) {
+							suite.insertAndCompare(t, tbl, v)
+						})
+					}
+				})
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}