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I have a binary(16) column in my table, which MySql.Net returns as a column of type string. This means that character translation is done on the returned value and I end up with incorrect data. Shouldn't it be giving me a byte array by default, and how can I persuade it to do that?
Ian

Use MySqlDataReader.GetBytes() method.

thanks, that would solve part of the problem, but what if the data is being fetched into a Datatable?
Ian

We can't change MySqlDataTable behavior because lots of queries (like "show tables") would fail. We are going to implement MySqlString class in future to solve such a problems. Look forward to our future releases.