On Dec 10, 2003, at 22:19, Lightning wrote:
I like it, I just have one question, and pardon my ignorance, but why the use of binary fields? are they faster or smaller or less easly corrupted?
'binary' on char and varchar fields just tells it not to try to match those fields in a case-insensitive fashion (which it would muck up anyway, having a poor understanding of multiple character sets and no knowledge of Unicode).
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)