RE: Is storing a whack of text in a binary format ok?

2001-03-21 Thread Don Read
On 21-Mar-01 WCBaker wrote: Hi, I can store and retrieve binary data in the form of image or sound files. However, I wanted to store up to say, 10,000 bytes of textual data. Since varchar has a 255 byte ceiling I thought that mediumblob might be nice for this. I can store the stuff as

Antwort: RE: Is storing a whack of text in a binary format ok?

2001-03-21 Thread alexander . skwar
On 21.03.2001 10:14:34 Don Read wrote: So I looked in the manual and found that: "mysql_query() cannot be used for queries that contain binary data; you should use mysql_real_query() instead. " What manual? MySQL manual? If so, disregard that information - it's incorrect as