[snip]
  I have a table witch has a column of type VARCHAR(10) BINARY. When I
tried to insert white spaces in it (insert into mytable (mycolumn)
values('    ')), an empty String is stored. Why?
[/snip]

Because ('      ') is an empty string

see 
http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/String_syntax.html
http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/String_comparison_functions.html
http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/String_functions.html

You probably want lpad, rpad, or space

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