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Re: What exactly is a "Binary Character" field?

It's a character field used for storing binary data (as opposed to a character field used for storing text data.)

On 6/16/2015 2:55 PM, James H. H. Lampert wrote:

But that still doesn't say what in blazes "Binary Character" IS. Whether
it's some new kind of shift (wouldn't that be a keyword, rather than a
data type?), or whatever.


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