thank you Edward. Edward Vermillion wrote: > > On May 10, 2006, at 10:53 AM, Peter Hoskin wrote: > >> >> GOOGLE DO NOT ARGUE > > > o_O....? yeah! I did figure it really was about time they changed their 'Do No Evil' slogan given their escapades in china funnily enough I watched a documentary the other day about the potential for information/propaganda abuse given the way major search engines operator and dominate. 'Google: do not argue' is pretty fitting all in all. lol. > >> >> So, if ASCII and Binary are both codesets... which does SQL use to store >> its data? >> > > ASCII is a codeset, utf* is a codeset.... binary is a, um... , binary > data. > > varchar, etc => ASCII/utf*/whatever => stored as text > int, etc => integer => stored as integer or long or whatever > BLOB => Binary Large OBject => stored as binary data there is a funny little story about where the name BLOB came from: http://www.cvalde.net/misc/blob_true_history.htm > > While you're right that it's better performance and maintenance wise to > use the filesystem to store binary objects, especially very large ones, > it's not necessarily 'wrong' to use MySQL. > > http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/index.html > > Ed > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
