DROP DATABASE IF EXISTS my_binary_database; CREATE DATABASE my_binary_database CHARSET=binary; USE my_binary_database; CREATE TABLE `sentinel` ( `id` int(11) NOT NULL, `ping` varchar(64) NOT NULL DEFAULT '', PRIMARY KEY (`id`) ) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1; INSERT INTO sentinel VALUES(1, '231f9da77ba0bf7e517b790334433cd3');