Storing long binary (raw data) strings

Question

We are capturing a raw binary string that is variable in size (from 100k to 800k) and we would like to store these individual strings. They do not need to be indexed (duh) a

Answer 1

You should probably use blob in most databases. text columns will often be normalized or transformed according to a text encoding or locale; and so the actual bytes may not be preserved as expected. In almost all cases, this is the only difference between a text and blob column.