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Asked: 2026-05-25T12:00:17+00:00

I’m using MySQL Workbench CE 5.2.30 CE / Rev 6790 . When execute the

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I’m using MySQL Workbench CE 5.2.30 CE / Rev 6790 . When execute the following statement:

SELECT OLD_PASSWORD("test")

I only get back a nice BLOB icon, I need to left-click to select the cell, right-click and choose “Open Value in viewer” and select the “Text” tab.

Using the same with phpMyAdmin, I get directly back the value of the OLD_PASSWORD call. It’s just an example, but is there a way to directly see such results in the output?

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  1. Editorial Team

    In short:

    In MySQL Workbench 6.0+

    1. Go to Edit > Preferences
    2. Choose SQL Editor
    3. Under SQL Execution, check Treat BINARY/VARBINARY as nonbinary character string
    4. Restart MySQL Workbench (you will not be prompted or informed of this requirement).

    In older versions of MySQL Workbench

    1. Go to Edit > Preferences
    2. Choose SQL Queries
    3. Under Query Results, check Treat BINARY/VARBINARY as nonbinary character string
    4. It’s not mandatory to restart MySQL Workbench (you will not be prompted or informed of this requirement).*

    With this setting you will be able to concatenate fields without getting blobs.

    I think this applies to versions 5.2.22 and later and is the result of this MySQL bug.

    Disclaimer: I don’t know what the downside of this setting is – maybe when you are selecting BINARY/VARBINARY values you will see it as plain text which may be misleading and/or maybe it will hinder performance if they are large enough?

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