title: Store binary strings mysql
body: <p>I am trying to figure out what the best way is to save binary data displayed as a string of 0s and 1s in mysql. The data has varies lengths and must be suitable to store up to 60000 bytes.</p>
  
  <p>As varbinary can also store strings of characters i am confused how the data is stored and if i might need a translation beforehand to improve the space of the database. The same counts for a blob. So what is the most efficient way to safe binary data in the form of zeros and ones?  </p>