Re: DBD::mysql retrieving column collation

John ORourke <[email protected]> Fri, 06 Jul 2007 06:59:01 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.mysql.perl
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Paul DuBois wrote:
> If you resort to parsing SHOW output, you might find the output of
> SHOW COLUMNS easier to deal with, because it's in row-and-column
> format.  SHOW FULL COLUMNS displays an additional Collation column,
Thanks! I wasn't aware of SHOW FULL COLUMNS.

However I'm now successfully using the new information_schema database 
like this:

"select data_type,collation_name from information_schema.columns where 
table_schema=? and table_name=? and column_name=?"

Then if collation_name =~/bin/  it's a binary column.

cheers
John


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