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Binary Data in MySQL

How do I store binary data in MySQL?

Solution

  • The answer by phpguy is correct but I think there is a lot of confusion in the additional details there.

    The basic answer is in a BLOB data type / attribute domain. BLOB is short for Binary Large Object and that column data type is specific for handling binary data.

    See the relevant manual page for MySQL.