The extra () in the describe keyspace output is only there if the column
comparator is the BytesType, the client tries to format the data as UTF8.
Dont forget truncate is doing snapshots, so check the snapshots dir and delete
things if you are using it a lot for testing.
The 0 == 1 thing does
I had a strange problem recently where I was unable to set the value of a column
to '0' (it always returned '1') but setting it to other values worked fine:
[default@Test] set Urls['rowkey']['status']='1';
Value inserted.
[default@Test] get Urls['rowkey'];
=> (column=status, value=1, timestamp=130
