Github user mattyb149 commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/nifi/pull/883#discussion_r76068439 --- Diff: nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-standard-bundle/nifi-standard-processors/src/main/java/org/apache/nifi/processors/standard/PutSQL.java --- @@ -787,6 +802,29 @@ private void setParameter(final PreparedStatement stmt, final String attrName, f stmt.setTimestamp(parameterIndex, new Timestamp(lTimestamp)); break; + case Types.BINARY: + case Types.VARBINARY: + case Types.LONGVARBINARY: + byte[] bValue; + + switch(valueFormat){ + case "": + case "ascii": --- End diff -- How about cases for UTF-8 and UTF-16? Since the case just calls getBytes() with a charset name, we could support any/all of the ones in [StandardCharsets](https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/index.html?java/nio/charset/StandardCharsets.html). I found this while putting smileys in sql.args.N.value, the default handling will treat every byte as a 63.
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