Following are the two approaches with the help of which we can enter characters as a BINARY number −
By prefix ‘B’
In this approach we need to quote binary numbers within single quotes with a prefix of B. Then BINARY number string will be automatically converted into a character string.
Example
mysql> Select B'01000001'; +-------------+ | B'01000001' | +-------------+ | A | +-------------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec)
By prefix 0b
In this approach, we need to write BINARY numbers without any quotes with a prefix of 0b. Then BINARY number string will be automatically converted into a character string.
Example
mysql> Select 0b01000001; +------------+ | 0b01000001 | +------------+ | A | +------------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec)