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Careful with Storing Base64 in MySQL

Bozho April 30, 2011

The usual choice for a collation in MySQL is utf8_general_ci (or whataver_ci). ci means “case insensitive” (there are also the _cs collations). All is fine with that, but if youContinue reading

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