Yeah, I was complaining about this on friday. Mysqldump has the –hex-blob option to encode binary as hex. I never understood why the client didn’t.
June 19, 2013
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Yeah, I was complaining about this on friday. Mysqldump has the –hex-blob option to encode binary as hex. I never understood why the client didn’t.
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