Data Types
- What is used to produce a new string from an old string in a desired character set.
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The introducers and CONVERT() clause are not the same in MySQL. An introducer modifies the way a string is interpreted and does not modify the string. CONVERT() produces a new string from the old one.
- A binary string is not associated with a character set.
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In MySQL, the string values are classified into two general categories. They are the binary strings and non binary strings. A binary string is only a sequence of bytes interpreted without a character set.
- The number of legal hexadecimal values among 0x0a, 0x0A, 0X0a and 0X0A is ___________.
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In MySQL, the hexadecimal values are case sensitive. The leading 0x is what makes it case sensitive. Not the lowercase ‘x’ notation is used here. Numbers prefixed with ‘0X’ are illegal.
- X’61626364′ and X’61626364′ are respectively __________.
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In the numeric contexts, each hexadecimal number constant is treated as a number. Without adding a zero to it, a hexadecimal literal is treated as a string. Hence it is displayed as abcd.
- x’ffff’ in decimal is ___________
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In MySQL, string values are specified using the standard SQL notation x’val’. Here, val is pairs of hexadecimal digits ( ‘0’ through ‘ 9 ’ and ‘ a ’ through ‘ f ’). x’ffff’ is 65536 in decimal.