title: Inserting String with slash into Mysql
body: <p>Actually I am just trying to insert string something like this <strong><em>30/01/2012</em></strong> into a table where that particular table column is of type varchar. After insertion this value is changed into <em>0.008946322067594433</em>. What may be the reason for this behaviour? Please let me know what I am doing wrong here. I am very poor in database/SQL concepts.</p>