On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Paul Houle <[email protected]> wrote: > As a person who has labored mightily to make sense of dbpedia, I > think that one reason why varbinary is preferable to varchar in many > applications in wikimedia is that varchar() string comparisons are case > insensitive and varbinary comparisons are case sensitive.
varchar with binary or utf8_bin collation is case-sensitive. It doesn't sort as nicely, though. (AFAIK.) _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
