I'm not a database god, but why would you want to store binary data in a
varchar feild when there are feilds of type binary to do store that type of
data? How can binary be upper or lower case?
-----Original Message-----
From: VVM Ravikumar Sarma Chengalvala [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 1:04 PM
To: ryc
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Varchar binary field auto-trimmed??
Hi,
We can decalre a varchar field as BINARY if we need
case sensitive storage of field values.
Regards,
Ravi
--- ryc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Varchar fields are
not binary, blobs are.
>
> ryan
>
> > Hi & Help!
> >
> > I would like to store some short binary data
> (encrypted). I used a
> > varchar(24) binary field for this.
> > But it seems that MySQL cuts white-spaces from the
> end when storing the
> > data in the table. When the encrypted string now
> has a white-space at
> > end, MySQL will cut it and this will result in a
> wrong decryption (next
> > time when the string is read and decrypted).
> >
> > When using TinyBlob instead of varchar binary, all
> works fine. Is this a
> > "feature" of varchar binary? In my opinion, binary
> data shouldn't be
> > trimmed!
> >
> > Please answer me via mail as I don't receive the
> mailing list.
> > Thanks for your support!
> >
> > ... tobias wiersch
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
---------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Before posting, please check:
> > http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual)
> > http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list
> archive)
> >
> > To request this thread, e-mail
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To unsubscribe, e-mail
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Trouble unsubscribing? Try:
> http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
> >
>
>
>
---------------------------------------------------------------------
> Before posting, please check:
> http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual)
> http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list
> archive)
>
> To request this thread, e-mail
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To unsubscribe, e-mail
>
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Trouble unsubscribing? Try:
> http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
>
____________________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk
or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Before posting, please check:
http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual)
http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive)
To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To unsubscribe, e-mail
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Before posting, please check:
http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual)
http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive)
To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
