Question

I am using MySQL database.

I have one table having column with datatype binary(16).

I need help with the insert statement for this table.

Example:
CREATE TABLE `assignedresource` (
`distid` binary(16) NOT NULL
)

insert into assignedresource values ('9fad5e9e-efdf-b449');

Error : Lookup Error - MySQL Database Error: Data too long for column 'distid' at row 1

How to resolve this issue?

Answer 1

You should remove the hyphens to make the value match the length of the field…

Example:
CREATE TABLE `assignedresource` (
`distid` binary(16) NOT NULL
)

insert into assignedresource values ('9fad5e9eefdfb449');

Also, MySQL standard is to use this notation to denote the string as binary… X’9fad5e9eefdfb449′, i.e.

insert into assignedresource values (X'9fad5e9eefdfb449');