title: Best way to store a base64 encoded value in MySQL DB?
body: <p>I have a value I'd like to store in my DB, does the Collation make any difference how a string like this</p>
  
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  <p>Might be stored? Also, the only way I seem to be able to write these values to the DB is by using a <code>BLOB</code> this seems to be a really rather wrong way of storing it. </p>