In the last episode (May 12), Larry Lowry said:
> A uniqueidentifier in MS SQL is basically a guid. I am generating
> them via System.Guid.NewGuid().ToString(N") in the Dot Net
> framework which now returns me a string of 32 characters (hex).
> Internally I understand it is a 128-bit integer. As an option I could
> store that in MySql. What data type would that be?
>
> How would one convert to binary char(16)? In what documentation
> would I find this? I do not know enough yet to write a UDF.
You'll need to build your own INSERT statement, since I don't know of
any way to convert an arbitrary hex string to a binary with mysql
functions (although you can use the HEX() function to go the other
way). What you can do is insert a hex value directly into a binary
field. Say your generated uuid was "cb0217f9-a47b-11d8-89f3-0080ad08fb4f":
UPDATE mytable SET myfield=CAST(0xcb0217f9a47b11d889f30080ad08fb4f as INARY);
It must be exactly like this, not within quotes. You also might want
to try just setting your uniqueid field directly using bind variables/
placeholders. If ODBC is smart enough, it will realize that both
source and destination are 16 bytes and just pass the raw binary value
without any bin->hex->bin conversion. Another option is to convert the
guid to a raw string yourself with .net, and pass that to mysql.
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