MySQL CONCAT(“string”,longtext) results in hex string

Question

I\'m experiencing a weird hex string result when trying to concat a string with a column that should be of LONGTEXT type.

The query goes like this:

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Answer 1

When you concat a number without a cast it returns as a blob. This is intended functionality of MySQL as far as I can tell since, it was reported in this bug thread and they closed it and confirmed it was returning a Blob.