In MariaDB, the BINARY operator casts the string following it to a binary string.
The BINARY operator enables you to do a column comparison byte by byte rather than character by character. This causes the comparison to be case sensitive even if the column isn’t defined as BINARY or BLOB. It also means that leading/trailing spaces become significant.
In MariaDB, BIT_LENGTH() is a built in string function that returns the length of the given string argument in bits.
You provide the string as an argument when you call the function.
Here are three ways to show the server collation in MariaDB.
In MariaDB, BIN() is a built in string function that returns a string representation of the binary value of the given longlong (i.e. BIGINT) number.
You provide the longlong number when you call the function.
In MariaDB, COLLATION() is a secondary built in function that returns the collation of a given string.
We provide the string when we call the function.
Here are three ways to return the collation of a column in MariaDB.
You can specify the character set and collation at various levels in MariaDB. You can specify them at the connection level, the server level, the database level, the table level, and even the column level.
You can also specify a collation in your queries so that it overrides any collation that has been previously specified at the aforementioned levels.
To set the character set and collation at the table level, use the CREATE TABLE statement or ALTER TABLE statement (depending on whether you’re creating the table or modifying it).
Here are four ways to return the database collation in MariaDB.
In MariaDB, you can use the SHOW CHARACTER SET administrative SQL statement to return all available character sets in MariaDB.
In MariaDB, you can use the SHOW COLLATION administrative SQL statement to return all available collations in MariaDB.