Regarding to the manual there is no difference between blob and text fields,
except that searching on text fields is case-insensitive and searches on
blobs are binary safe.
However, i'm quite stunned if you say you cannot use mysql_query to query
binary data, i've never experienced this problem:
mysql> create table test (b tinyblob);
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
mysql> insert into test values ('test');
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)
mysql> select * from test;
+------+
| b |
+------+
| test |
+------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
mysql> select * from test where b like '%t%';
+------+
| b |
+------+
| test |
+------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
with both PHP and delphi i did not experience any problem at all.
which version and environment are you using and can you reproduce it ?
----- Original Message -----
From: "WCBaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "MySQL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2001 4:42 AM
Subject: "text stored as binary" question posted earlier
> Hi all!
>
> Regarding my earler question about storing text as binary - I found no
> problem storing the text as mediumtext or longtext, and then dragging it
out
> with a normal "mysql_query ". This solves my problem.
>
> However, if anyone has other ideas I'd love to hear them!
>
> Thanks very much!
>
> -Warren
>
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