On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 2:39 AM, nathanelrick <nathanelr...@yahoo.fr> wrote: > > I want to store the data in the database "as is" > As i understand for the connection charset i have only the "NONE" choice, but > for the field definition i can choose between "NONE" and "OCTETS" ... both > are very similar as i understand, so much similar that i don't understand the > difference between them ? with to choose ? >
NONE leaves the data as a generic string which will be padded with spaces when compared with longer strings. OCTETS declares that the data is just bytes and will be padded with zeros when compared with longer values. Good luck, Ann
