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Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2012 20:25:01 +0100
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Subject: Re: Insert via CQL
From: Sylvain Lebresne <sylvain@datastax.com>
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On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 1:40 AM, Eric Evans <eevans@acunu.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Vivek Mishra <mishra.vivs@gmail.com> wrote:
>> any idea, how to insert into a column family for a column of type "blob" via
>> cql query?
>
> Yes, most of them involve binary data that is hex-encoded ascii. :)

Unless you are using prepared statement. In which case you just send
you blob as binary. But for non-prepared queries, you do have to
hex-encode indeed (meaning that if you do use blobs, especially
largish one, I highly recommend using prepared statements).

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Sylvain