Insert hex values into MySql

Question

I have a table with a VARBINARY column. I need to insert a string such as \'4D2AFF\' which represents the hex values 0x4D, 0x2A and 0xFF respectively. How do I construct t

Answer 1

Or you can do even this:

INSERT INTO tbl (col) VALUES (X'4D2AFF')

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