How do I convert from BLOB to TEXT in Mysql?

After some googling for you i've found this. It's
an answer to a person who wants to convert blob to char(1000) with utf8 encoding

CAST(a.ar_options AS CHAR(10000) CHARACTER SET utf8)

This is his answer. There is probably much more you can read about CAST right
here. Hope it helps some.

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Thats unnecessary, just use SELECT CONVERT(column USING utf8) FROM ..... instead of just SELECT column FROM ..... share|improve this answer edited May 25 at 14:32 davenpcj 2,71341425 answered Nov 19 '10 at 3:57 Yuma 31132

1 This doesn't work for me. – chaostheory Jun 21 '11 at 21:06 4 Usage: SELECT CONVERT(column USING utf8) FROM table; – bmaupin Oct 2 '12 at 19:32 This works great for those GROUP_CONCATs that convert your output to blobs and you really want them as strings. I had an issue similar to the OP's while using Node.JS with the node-mysql library - this fixed all group_concat issues. – marksyzm Jul 26 at 13:53

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or you can use this function DELIMITER $$ CREATE FUNCTION BLOB2TXT (blobfield VARCHAR(255)) RETURNS longtext DETERMINISTIC NO SQL BEGIN RETURN CAST(blobfield AS CHAR(10000) CHARACTER SET utf8); END $$ DELIMITER ; share|improve this answer

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/948174/how-do-i-convert-from-blob-to-text-in-mysql

select * from test_table where Test_data = CAST( blobObject AS CHAR );