I have an application that reads an image file and puts it into a MEDIUMBLOB. Or at least that's what it's supposed to do. What it actually does is nothing. I can do the database insert, which ...

Inserting a string into a MySQL table is a matter of logging into the MySQL server, then issuing an "insert" command for the table column that holds text data.

How can I get this nominally UTF-8 file into MySQL successfully? For what it's worth, if I open the UTF-8 file in Notepad or re-open it in Excel, it looks fine.<BR><BR>Thanks for any help!