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Hello everybody, the MySQL application I'm building needs to be ported from my current site to the hosting site - which is based on another nation. The problem I'm having is that the login doesn't work as the password doesn't match in the charset of the new hosting site. To address this problem,

Uploading large files with mySQL

Hello, I'm developing a web application that requires to store large files in a MySQL database. The files can range up to 2Gb. In my understanding the upper limit for the SQL queries (thus insert queries) is 1GB. I'm trying, for the time being, to upload files of sizes around 65MB, but I still