BINARY
Description: Causes the string following the word BINARY to be typecast as a binary string.
Its typical use is to force a case-sensitive comparison, even though the string is not already binary data or a BLOB column type. Was introduced in version 3.23.0.
Examples:
SELECT 'A'='a' returns 1.
SELECT BINARY 'A'='a' returns 0.
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