Working anymore? You mean that it used to work? Now I'm confused!!
The quote from the manual is correct. Using BINARY means that 'A' < 'a' not
'A' = 'a' which is the case without the keyword BINARY.
What is it you are trying to achieve by inserting 0x1 into a CHAR field?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tommie Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Rolf Hopkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 22:18
Subject: Re: binary bug in mysql 3.23.30-gamma
> Binary is an option on the varchar type
> I pulled the following quote from the mysql website.
>
> It just does not seem to be working anymore.
>
> [NATIONAL] VARCHAR(M) [BINARY]
> A variable-length string. NOTE: Trailing spaces are removed when the
> value is stored (this differs from the ANSI SQL specification). The
> range of M is 1 to 255 characters. VARCHAR values are sorted and
> compared in case-insensitive fashion unless the BINARY keyword is given.
> See section 7.7.1 Silent Column Specification Changes. VARCHAR is a
> shorthand for CHARACTER VARYING. See section 7.3.4.1 The CHAR and
> VARCHAR Types.
>
> Rolf Hopkins wrote:
> >
> > I think you are a bit confused with binary and varchar. varchar is used
to
> > store strings such as "the cow jumped over the moon" and binary means
that
> > it is case sensitive.
> >
> > You are trying to insert a hex value of 0x1, right? I think this is an
> > illegal value and those two entries are set to NULL. MySQL behaves
> > differently from standard in that it inserts default values instead, if
> > there is an error, which in your case, would be NULL. What you want
instead
> > is an integer column.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Tommie Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 3:30
> > Subject: binary bug in mysql 3.23.30-gamma
> >
> > > In the process of converting over to 3.23.30-gamma from 3.22
> > >
> > > whenever I set the field to a binary field to a value it stores it in
> > > the database as zero.
> > >
> > > Does anyone have any suggestions.
> > >
> > > I am having a problem with the binary data type... Here is the log to
> > > demonstrate.
> > >
> > >
> > > ---------------------------------------------------------
> > > mysql> create table crud (bin varchar(16) binary);
> > > Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.02 sec)
> > >
> > > mysql> insert into crud (bin) values (0x1);
> > > Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)
> > >
> > > mysql> insert into crud (bin) values (0x2);
> > > Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)
> > >
> > > mysql> select * from crud where bin=0;
> > > +------+
> > > | bin |
> > > +------+
> > > | |
> > > | |
> > > +------+
> > > 2 rows in set (0.00 sec)
> > >
> > > mysql> select * from crud where bin=0x0;
> > > +------+
> > > | bin |
> > > +------+
> > > | |
> > > | |
> > > +------+
> > > 2 rows in set (0.00 sec)
> > >
> > > mysql> select * from crud where bin=0x1;
> > > Empty set (0.00 sec)
> > >
> > > mysql> select * from crud where bin=0x2;
> > > Empty set (0.00 sec)
> > >
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