diff --git a/superset/db_engine_specs/base.py b/superset/db_engine_specs/base.py
index 136ca55712c..331961c7c5e 100644
--- a/superset/db_engine_specs/base.py
+++ b/superset/db_engine_specs/base.py
@@ -156,11 +156,12 @@ class BaseEngineSpec:  # pylint: disable=too-many-public-methods
     # default matching patterns for identifying column types
     db_column_types: Dict[utils.DbColumnType, Tuple[Pattern[Any], ...]] = {
         utils.DbColumnType.NUMERIC: (
+            re.compile(r"BIT", re.IGNORECASE),
             re.compile(r".*DOUBLE.*", re.IGNORECASE),
             re.compile(r".*FLOAT.*", re.IGNORECASE),
             re.compile(r".*INT.*", re.IGNORECASE),
             re.compile(r".*NUMBER.*", re.IGNORECASE),
-            re.compile(r".*LONG.*", re.IGNORECASE),
+            re.compile(r".*LONG$", re.IGNORECASE),
             re.compile(r".*REAL.*", re.IGNORECASE),
             re.compile(r".*NUMERIC.*", re.IGNORECASE),
             re.compile(r".*DECIMAL.*", re.IGNORECASE),
diff --git a/tests/db_engine_specs/mysql_tests.py b/tests/db_engine_specs/mysql_tests.py
index f284f8801ad..b3ebdfc6ca3 100644
--- a/tests/db_engine_specs/mysql_tests.py
+++ b/tests/db_engine_specs/mysql_tests.py
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ from sqlalchemy.dialects import mysql
 from sqlalchemy.dialects.mysql import DATE, NVARCHAR, TEXT, VARCHAR
 
 from superset.db_engine_specs.mysql import MySQLEngineSpec
+from superset.utils.core import DbColumnType
 from tests.db_engine_specs.base_tests import TestDbEngineSpec
 
 
@@ -62,3 +63,41 @@ class TestMySQLEngineSpecsDbEngineSpec(TestDbEngineSpec):
                 original, mysql.dialect()
             )
             self.assertEqual(actual, expected)
+
+    def test_is_db_column_type_match(self):
+        type_expectations = (
+            # Numeric
+            ("TINYINT", DbColumnType.NUMERIC),
+            ("SMALLINT", DbColumnType.NUMERIC),
+            ("MEDIUMINT", DbColumnType.NUMERIC),
+            ("INT", DbColumnType.NUMERIC),
+            ("BIGINT", DbColumnType.NUMERIC),
+            ("DECIMAL", DbColumnType.NUMERIC),
+            ("FLOAT", DbColumnType.NUMERIC),
+            ("DOUBLE", DbColumnType.NUMERIC),
+            ("BIT", DbColumnType.NUMERIC),
+            # String
+            ("CHAR", DbColumnType.STRING),
+            ("VARCHAR", DbColumnType.STRING),
+            ("TINYTEXT", DbColumnType.STRING),
+            ("MEDIUMTEXT", DbColumnType.STRING),
+            ("LONGTEXT", DbColumnType.STRING),
+            # Temporal
+            ("DATE", DbColumnType.TEMPORAL),
+            ("DATETIME", DbColumnType.TEMPORAL),
+            ("TIMESTAMP", DbColumnType.TEMPORAL),
+            ("TIME", DbColumnType.TEMPORAL),
+        )
+
+        for type_expectation in type_expectations:
+            type_str = type_expectation[0]
+            col_type = type_expectation[1]
+            assert MySQLEngineSpec.is_db_column_type_match(
+                type_str, DbColumnType.NUMERIC
+            ) is (col_type == DbColumnType.NUMERIC)
+            assert MySQLEngineSpec.is_db_column_type_match(
+                type_str, DbColumnType.STRING
+            ) is (col_type == DbColumnType.STRING)
+            assert MySQLEngineSpec.is_db_column_type_match(
+                type_str, DbColumnType.TEMPORAL
+            ) is (col_type == DbColumnType.TEMPORAL)